Tag Archives: privacy advocates
Data Privacy Day and Anonymity
Badly formed privacy complaints aren’t just ineffective: they risk jeopardizing privacy principles, which include anonymity in public spaces. 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
Privacy Advocates and Deep Packet Inspection: Vendors, ISPs, and Third-Parties
DPI vendors are routinely involved in trying to sell their product – it’s what they do – but I think what is most telling isn’t what vendors say, but what the ISPs’ representatives say. When I talked to a Bell representative recently, and asked whether it mattered to Bell that throttling BitTorrent might affect the dissemination of information, the rep’s response was “they choose that business model, and now they get to live with the consequences of choosing it” (paraphrased). Is the technology itself inherently ‘bad’? I’m not comfortable with that. Are particular uses of the technology ‘bad’? Undoubtably. Continue reading
