This has led to the development and deployment of technologies to help personal data stay private and keep data secure from would-be attackers. We’ve written before about how we think a key way to improve privacy is to reduce the amount of personal data flowing across the Internet. Security to ensure PrivacyĬloudflare’s founding mission to help build a better Internet has always included focusing on privacy-first products and services. Lastly, we’ll continue to focus on the introduction of new or updated data protection regulations around the world, as well as regulation governing digital services, which will inevitably have implications for how personal and non-personal data is used and transferred globally. Third, recent regulatory enforcement actions in the EU against websites’ use of cookies have us thinking about how we can help websites run third-party tools, such as analytics, in a faster, more secure, and more privacy-protective way. While we don’t think you need localization to achieve privacy, the two are inextricably linked in the EU regulatory landscape and elsewhere. The second category is data localization.

At Cloudflare, we’ve invested in privacy-focused technologies and security measures that enhance data privacy to help build the third phase of the Internet, the Privacy phase, and we expect to double down on these developments in 2022. The first category that gets our attention is the intersection of data security and data privacy. In honor of Privacy Day, we’re highlighting some key topics in data privacy and data protection that helped shape the landscape in 2021, as well as the issues we’ll be thinking about in 2022. Happy Data Privacy Day 2022! Of course, every day is privacy day at Cloudflare, but today gives us a great excuse to talk about one of our favorite topics. This post is also available in Français, Deutsch.

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