Google's DNS-Over-TLS Plans Scrutinized By US Congress

'Google's plans to implement DNS over TLS in Chrome are being
investigated by a committee in the U.S. House of Representatives,
while the Justice Department has "recently received complaints" about
the practice, according to the Wall Street Journal.

An anonymous reader quotes Engadget:

While Google says it's pushing for adoption of the technology to
prevent spying and spoofing, House investigators are worried this
would give the internet giant an unfair advantage by denying access to
users' data. The House sent a letter on September 13th asking if
Google would use data handled through the process for commercial
purposes... Internet service providers are worried that they may be
shut out of the data and won't know as much about their customers'
traffic patterns. This could "foreclose competition in advertising and
other industries," an alliance of ISPs told Congress in a September
19th letter...

Mozilla also wants to use the format to secure DNS in Firefox, and the
company's Marshall Erwin told the WSJ that the antitrust gripes are
"fundamentally misleading." ISPs are trying to undermine the standard
simply because they want continued access to users' data, Erwin said.
Unencrypted DNS helps them target ads by tracking your web habits, and
it's harder to thwart DNS tracking than cookies and other typical
approaches. '

-- source: https://tech.slashdot.org/story/19/09/29/2033247

Cheers, Peter
-- 
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University of Waikato, NZ
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