Category Archives: Thoughts
Deep Packet Inspection and Law Enforcement
How might law enforcement use DPI to identify and pursue child pornographers? Hows does this intersect with Canadian lawful access legislation? Continue reading
Draft: What’s Driving Deep Packet Inspection in Canada?
Privacy advocates concerned about deep packet networking appliances abilities to discriminate between data traffic should lean towards adopting a ‘fundamentalist’, rather than a ‘pragmatic’, attitude concerning these appliances. Such a position will help privacy advocates resist the temptation of falling prey to case-by-case analyses that threaten to obfuscate these device’s full (and secretive) potentialities. Continue reading
Byte-Based Billing and Smart Pipes
Consumers themselves might insist that heightened (though regulated) modes of intelligence should reside in networks to better control their byte-based utility bills. Technologies such as deep packet inspection could very well thrive in such an economic system; ‘dumb billing’ does not necessarily mean that ISPs will be motivated to return to ‘dumb pipes.’ Continue reading
Holistic and Pragmatic Approaches to Privacy Theorization
My thinking is that we should take a page from Kant’ book and genuinely inquire whether or not a parsimonious understanding of ‘privacy’ is actually what we want – do we want to focus on the pragmatic ‘now’ – or should we instead pursue nuanced and detailed accounts of privacy that are fluid enough to modulate themselves with changes in normative attitudes and technological innovations and that can simultaneously offer policy alternatives. Such an approach wouldn’t necessarily discount current pragmatic approaches to or understandings of privacy-related problems, but could innovate well beyond the limited conceptualizations lying behind some of the current pragmatic approaches. Continue reading
