From an article by Ralf Bendrath of the European Parliament and Milton Mueller, Syracuse University School of Information Studies: Abstract: Advances in network equipment now allow internet service providers to monitor the content of data packets in real-time and make decisions about how to handle them. If deployed widely this technology, known as deep packet…
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Virgin Media to trial piracy-detection software
Barry Collins reports: For Alan Ellis, last week was a good one: he was acquitted of conspiracy to commit fraud. The prosecution had argued that the 26-year-old received at least £190,000 in donations to Oink, his filesharing website. Until Oink was shut down in 2007, it had, the crown claimed, helped 200,000 users illegally to…
Editorial: Privacy and the internet
From an editorial in the Cayman Net News: According to a press release last week, the Information and Communications Technology Authority (ICTA) has launched a public consultation on the use of so-called “deep packet inspection” (DPI) of internet data, including emails, web pages and internet telephony applications. […] The ICTA gives some examples of how…
Iran’s Use of DPI spurs debate in the U.S.
The current events in Iran have spurred digital rights advocates to renew calls for Congress to investigate deep packet inspection technology. This morning, groups including the Open Internet Coalition, Free Press, Public Knowledge and the ACLU wrote to Congress to ask for hearings about how U.S. companies are using deep packet inspection, or “virtual wiretap”…