Tag Archives: communication
Iran, Traffic Analysis, and Deep Packet Inspection
I want to briefly note and comment on how news sources are talking about Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and data traffic that is flowing in and out of Iran. Continue reading
Canadian Telecom Summit and DPI
For the past little while I’ve been (back) in Ontario trying to soak up as much information as I could about telecommunications and deep packet inspection. I was generously given the opportunity to attend the Canadian Telecommunications Summit by Mark … 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
Canadian Privacy Advocates and Their Privacy Commissioners
What isn’t good, is that the listserv is damnably hard to find – it’s kept very private, and is effectively just word of mouth. This leaves the public out of the discussion, and leaves advocates and commissioners in a bubble that the public should at least be able to find via Google. This is a serious problem, and (to my mind) speaks of a not bizarre, and a potentially problematic, relationship between advocates and officials. Continue reading
