Image Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a ‘Know Your Customer’ regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of “foreign malicious actors.” Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won’t be able to avoid the proposal’s requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others.

  • @[email protected]
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    237 months ago

    Let’s hope not, this sounds absolutely atrocious. Privacy rights are in such a sad state.

    • Aniki 🌱🌿
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      97 months ago

      I can totally just see my company moving all overseas or regional cloud operations migrating to some awful Equinix DC.