Category Archives: Privacy
Deep Packet Inspection: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this post, I want to try to lay out where I see some of the Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) discussions. This is to clarify things in my head that I’ve been thinking through for the past couple of days and to lay out for readers some of the ‘bigger picture’ elements of the DPI discussion (as I read them). If you’ve been fervently following developments surrounding this technology, then a lot of what is below is just rehashing what you know – hopefully the summary is useful – but if you’re relatively unfamiliar with what’s been going on this might help to orient what’s been, and is being, said. Continue reading
Thoughts: P2P, PET+, and Privacy Literature
Ultimately, I see it as a conceptual win-win to draw the idea of PET+ and Commisioners’ regultory powers into the P2P discussion along with a flow-based understanding of privacy that recognizes privacy as a value to both individuals and societies more broadly. Continue reading
Facial Blurring = Securing Individual Privacy?
There is really a certain ‘ick’ reaction when some public images are captured and then widely disseminated online (such as the above Google Streetview picture) – there is an expectation that certain contextual, culturally specific privacy norms carry over into ‘public’ spaces…companies that want to avoid doing evil would be well served to realize privacy as a cultural, rather than an engineering, issue. Continue reading
Draft: Code-Bodies and Algorithmic Voyeurism
This paper, entitled “Code-Bodies and Algorithmic Surveillance: Examining the impacts of encryption, rights of publicity, and code-specters,” is an effort to think through how voyeurism might be understood in the context of Deep Packet Inspection using the theoretical lenses of Kant and Derrida. Continue reading
