Deep packet inspection (DPI) technology doesn’t threaten people’s privacy. People threaten people’s privacy. Or that’s what Canadian network policy control solutions company Sandvine Inc. suggests in a recent submission to the privacy commissioner. The Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada will be holding consultations on the privacy implications of emerging technologies, such as DPI,…
Category: Surveillance
Lower Merion’s headaches mount
Not only is the Lower Merion School District garnering increasing negative media coverage as new data emerges about the extent to which it used a webcam feature to take and store digital images of students in their homes and as an employee pleads the Fifth Amendment, but it seems that Lower Merion’s own insurance company…
Indictment: Robbinsville school IT guy spied with cameras under women’s desks
Artemis Coughlan reports: A technology specialist for the Robbinsville School District has been indicted by a Mercer County grand jury on charges he allegedly set up cameras to spy on female workers at the Sharon Elementary School, prosecutors said yesterday. Carl A. Alb, 30, of Beech Street, Pennington, is charged with two counts of invasion…
EPIC Demands Release of Classified Answers on Privacy and Internet Standards from Cyber Command Nominee
From EPIC: EPIC has filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request with the National Security Agency (NSA) seeking the “classified supplement” that Director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander filed with his answers to questions from the Senate Armed Services Committee regarding his nomination to be the Commander of the newly formed United States Cyber Command. Several…