[ NNSquad ] Re: Rogers Confirms Data Intercept/Modification Story

[Kevin McArthur <kevin@stormtide.ca>]

Thanks Lauren for this posting.

It is interesting that Rogers would be doing this. Two reasons come to 
mind.

1) the telecommunications act almost certainly prohibits it

36. "Except where the Commission approves otherwise, a Canadian
carrier shall not control the content or influence the meaning or
purpose of telecommunications carried by it for the public."


2) the privacy act(s) would also have something to say about the method 
in which customers web-traffic is being read. There have been many 
arguments made to the crtc that urls are like phone numbers whereas the 
data is like a conversation. To my knowledge law prohibits interception 
of the conversation by carriers on privacy ground and would likely 
prohibit the type of sub-protocol html tag detection (monitoring, 
interception) that is required to make this type of thing work.

A good step would be to file a complaint with the CRTC and the Privacy 
Commissioner as there is probably already the legal framework to deal 
with this type of thing.

IANAL TISNLA

Kevin McArthur

Lauren Weinstein wrote:
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