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U.S. "Know Your Customer" Proposal Will Put an End to Anonymous Cloud Users * TorrentFreak

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A proposal in the U.S. could see cloud service companies offering CDNs, virtual services, and proxies, to positively identify every customer.

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.

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