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The Electronic Frontier Foundation has announced that Cloudflare is one of its clients in a lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of National Security Letters:
We're happy to be able to announce that Cloudflare is the second courageous client in EFF's long-running lawsuit challenging the government's unconstitutional national security letter (NSL) authority. Cloudflare, a provider of web performance and security services, just published its new transparency report announcing it has been fighting the NSL statute since 2013.
Like EFF's other client, CREDO, Cloudflare took a stand against the FBI's use of unilateral, perpetual NSL gag orders that resulted in a secret court battle stretching several years and counting. The litigation—seeking a ruling that the NSL power is unconstitutional—continues, but we're pleased that we can at long last publicly applaud Cloudflare for fighting on behalf of its customers. Now more than ever we need the technology community to stand with users in the courts. We hope others will follow Cloudflare's example.
16-16082 Notice to Court Concerning NSL
(Score: 2) by Rosco P. Coltrane on Friday January 13 2017, @02:51PM
Who would've thought eh?
CloudFlare seems innocuous enough a company, until you try to access internet sites throught a TOR exit node. That's when you realize the extent of this company's control over the internet, their power to deanonymize you, exploit you for free labor (captchas) and make your life an unending misery if you don't want to be tracked online.
CloudFlare is one of the biggest threat to privacy online after Google and Facebook. Their fighting national security letters is nothing short of ironic. It'd be worth investigating what exactly they stand to gain financially from doing this - because they sure ain't doing it for constitutional or moral principles...