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Subject: Google faces scrutiny from Congress, DOJ over plans to encrypt DNS
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 2019 08:58:45 -0000 (UTC)
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https://www.engadget.com/2019/09/29/congress-doj-scrutinze-google-encrypted-dns/

Google faces scrutiny from Congress, DOJ over plans to encrypt DNS
Officials are concerned it might give Google an unfair advantage.
Jon Fingas, @jonfingas

Google's bid to encrypt domain name requests appears to be raising hackles
among American officials. The Wall Street Journal has learned that the
House Judiciary Committee is investigating Google's plans to implement DNS
over TLS in Chrome, while the Justice Department has "recently received
complaints" about the practice. 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. Google has maintained
that its Chrome tweaks would give users control over who shares their
info, and that it won't force people to switch to encrypted DNS.

That likely won't allay telecoms' fears. 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.

Google might not have much to worry about, though, as it's not the only
one pushing for the same encryption. 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.

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