EU Terrorist Content Online proposal – political haste and unintended consequences
December 04, 2018 5:00 PM
In September, the European Commission presented a legislative proposal to address the removal of terrorist content online. ...
Cloudflare's Response to a Privacy Framework
November 17, 2018 8:09 PM
Cloudflare’s mission is to help build a better internet, and privacy has to be at the heart of that effort. That’s why we submitted comments last week on the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA)’s request for comment on its proposed approach to advance consumer privacy. ...
DC CyberWeek Is Here!
October 15, 2018 5:15 PM
This October is the 15th annual National Cybersecurity Awareness Month in the United States, a collaboration between the US government and industry to raise awareness about the part we can all play in staying more secure online....
EU Copyright Vote: A Critical Juncture for the Open Internet
September 10, 2018 10:23 AM
Back in June, we blogged about the draft EU copyright proposal which is currently making its way through the legislative process in Brussels. ...
Identifying and alerting on data loss using Cloudflare Workers
August 30, 2018 5:50 PM
Becoming aware and identifying data breaches as they happen, however, is not an easy task. It is often challenging for companies to become aware of their own data breaches and losses. Workers allow you to identify and get alerted on data breaches as they occur....
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June 25, 2018 6:59 PM
Copyright? Copywrong!
The drafting of the new EU Copyright Directive was never going to be an easy task. As has been seen over the years, policy discussions involving digital service providers and the intellectual property rights community are often polarizing, and middle ground can be difficult to fi...
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May 11, 2018 5:30 PM
Project Jengo Celebrates One Year Anniversary by Releasing Prior Art
Today marks the one year anniversary of Project Jengo, a notorious patent troll. In homage to the typical anniversary cliché, we are taking this opportunity to reflect on the last year and confirm that we’re still going strong....
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May 02, 2018 4:00 PM
Sharing more Details, not more Data: Our new Privacy Policy and Data Protection Plans
I’m excited to announce that today we are launching a new Privacy Policy. Our new policy explains the kind of information we collect, from whom we collect it, and how we use it in a more transparent way. ...
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February 13, 2018 1:16 AM
Bye Bye Blackbird
As we have talked about repeatedly in this blog, we at Cloudflare are not fans of the behavior of patent trolls. They prey upon innovative companies using overly-broad patents in an attempt to bleed settlements out of their targets. ...
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January 05, 2018 8:04 PM
Keeping your GDPR Resolutions
For many of us, a New Year brings a renewed commitment to eat better, exercise regularly, and read more (especially the Cloudflare blog). But as we enter 2018, there is a unique and significant new commitment approaching....
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December 15, 2017 2:00 PM
The Athenian Project: Helping Protect Elections
From cyberattacks on election infrastructure, to attempted hacking of voting machines, to attacks on campaign websites, the last few years have brought us unprecedented attempts to use online vulnerabilities to affect elections both in the United States and abroad....
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December 12, 2017 3:00 AM
The FCC Wants to Terminate Net Neutrality - Use Battle for the Net on Cloudflare Apps to Fight Back
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has scheduled a vote to kill its net neutrality rules this Thursday, December 14th. ...
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November 20, 2017 6:18 PM
The Supreme Court Wanders into the Patent Troll Fight
Next Monday, the US Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Oil States Energy Services, LLC vs. Greene’s Energy Group, LLC, which is a case to determine whether the Inter Partes Review (IPR) administrative process at the US Patent and Trademark Office....
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October 01, 2017 10:00 AM
A New Cybersecurity Strategy for Europe
October is European Cybersecurity Month, an annual advocacy campaign to raise awareness of cyber risks among citizens and businesses, and to share best practices in cybersecurity....
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September 21, 2017 4:02 PM
Project Jengo Strikes Its First Targets (and Looks for More)
When Blackbird Tech, a notorious patent troll, sued us earlier this year for patent infringement, we discovered quickly that the folks at Blackbird were engaged in what appeared to be the broad and unsubstantiated assertion of patents -- filing about 115 lawsuits in less than 3 y...
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September 15, 2017 12:03 AM
Will Data Destroy Democracy?
Lawrence Lessig, Roy L. Furman Professor of Law and Leadership, Harvard Law School and Darren Bolding, CTO, Cambridge Analytica Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare ...
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September 14, 2017 11:18 PM
Private Companies, Public Squares
Daphne Keller, Director, Stanford Center for Internet & Society, and Lee Rowland, Senior Staff Attorney, ACLU Speech, Privacy & Technology Project Moderator: Matthew Prince, Co-Founder & CEO, Cloudflare...
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September 14, 2017 9:38 PM
The New Breed of Patent Trolls
Lee Cheng, President & Co-CLO, Symmetry IP LLC, and Vera Ranieri, Staff Attorney, Electronic Frontier Foundation Moderator: Doug Kramer, General Counsel, Cloudflare...
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September 14, 2017 5:08 PM
The View from Washington: The State of Cybersecurity
Avril Haines, Former Deputy National Security Advisor, Obama Administration...
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