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[ NNSquad ] Re: Former UK Labour Minister urges crackdown on ISP use of DPI
A prime example of just how a combination of ill-informed news media and politicians can muddy the waters and make it harder to get sensible regulation of the industry. Phorm was not "deployed" in the UK. It was trialled, perhaps with dubious legality, by BT, and then dumped by UK ISPs, as were the other equivalent systems. Despite Phorm's faults as a company (and there are many), having spent a lot of time looking at their system I know I'd trust it to anonymize my browsing habits and make it hard for anyone to identify me. Unlike Google. As for DPI in UK ISPs, most have used it for years. I can't vouch for the "email snooping" story, which is indeed a very dubious use. All uses I am aware of are for the purpose of (EG) maintaining interactive performance when non-interactive applications start to swamp the pipe. We may argue whether that is "neutral" or not, but it is not an invasion of privacy. One UK ISP even had plaudits from their users when they announced that they were doing just that - and the ISP in question is a subsidiary of BT. On Mar 3, 2011, at 9:23 AM, Lauren Weinstein wrote: > > Former UK Labour Minister urges crackdown on ISP use of DPI > > http://j.mp/gMrlNl (BBC) > > --Lauren-- > Lauren Weinstein (lauren@vortex.com): http://www.vortex.com/lauren > Co-Founder: People For Internet Responsibility: http://www.pfir.org > Founder: > - Network Neutrality Squad: http://www.nnsquad.org > - Global Coalition for Transparent Internet Performance: http://www.gctip.org > - PRIVACY Forum: http://www.vortex.com > Member: ACM Committee on Computers and Public Policy > Blog: http://lauren.vortex.com > Twitter: https://twitter.com/laurenweinstein > Google Buzz: http://bit.ly/lauren-buzz > Quora: http://www.quora.com/Lauren-Weinstein > Tel: +1 (818) 225-2800 / Skype: vortex.com