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Cybersecurity & Standards, Government Surveillance

No Half Measures: Digital Marketing Properties Must Adopt Encryption Best Practices

In the wake of Edward Snowden’s revelations, data is increasingly encrypted both in transit and at rest. On the web, HTTPS – the colloquial term for HTTP traffic encrypted with the TLS protocol – adoption has grown significantly, and there is increasing consensus that HTTPS is critical for a trusted web. In this white paper we lay out CDT’s recommendations on what properly implemented HTTPS entails.