Tag Archives: Technology
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
CFP 2009 Panel on DPI
Embedded video of talk on deep packet inspection. 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
Deep Packet Inspection and the Confluence of Privacy Regimes
Given how difficult I found it to find successful SSHRC-related research statements (save for through personal contacts) I wanted to post my own statement for others to look at and download if they so wish. Continue reading
