Category Archives: Technology
Deep Packet Inspection and Consumer Transparency
Deep packet inspection and Quality of Service infrastructure regularly mediates Canadians’ digital communications. Given the importance of our digital systems I think that ISPs should remain compliant with technical and regulatory transparency requirements, but also ensure that their policies are also transparent and understandable to end-users. Continue reading
Is Iran Now Actually Using Deep Packet Inspection?
Regardless of whether deep packet inspection or some other monitoring systems are being used to limit access to censorship evasion tools, the deployment of such systems is a massive evolution of Iranian surveillance and mediation efforts. The government attacker, partnered with ISPs, has become an even greater threat than before to free speech and association advocates, to say nothing of the members of the Green Revolution, than ever before. Continue reading
Agenda Denial and UK Privacy Advocacy
This post constitutes an early attempt to work through some of the politics of agenda-setting related to deep packet inspection and privacy for my dissertation project. Comments are welcome. Continue reading
Review of Telecommunications Policy in Transition
It might be hard to justify the cost of a decade-old communications policy text, but this collection has aged quite well. If network neutrality, peering, copyright, or comparative deployment policies are in your line of interest then this is a wonderful book to add to your collection! Continue reading
