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> The fact that cloudflare is a US entity and thus not subject to UK law is the whole point. As a fellow citizen of a Five Eyes country, I assume that if any o
by cookie_monsta 7y ago
> The fact that cloudflare is a US entity and thus not subject to UK law is the whole point.
As a fellow citizen of a Five Eyes country, I assume that if any of those 5 have info about me that one of the other four wants it won't even be a question of paperwork for it to be shared.
- mantap 7y agoThe previous UK law, RIPA, was abused for investigating minor crimes such as fraudulently obtaining disabled parking badges. It's not just about national governments but local municipal authorities too. Yes I would prefer another jurisdiction but it's way better than the status quo whereby the browsing history is just handed over.
- cookie_monsta 7y ago> The previous UK law, RIPA, was abused for investigating minor crimes such as fraudulently obtaining disabled parking badges. I understand that you're trying to illustrate a larger problem, but that example is likely to get you zero sympathy from anybody, anywhere. I know that US ISPs have an established pattern of "just handing over" browsing history, but I have no idea what CF's track record is like.
- comex 7y agoThen it's a good thing that if you use DNS over HTTPS, none of those countries will have the info, since the connection is encrypted to Cloudflare and they will not be logging queries.
- cookie_monsta 7y agoAgreed. The connection is indeed encrypted and they are not currently logging queries.