CIPPIC calls for Deep Packet Inspection probe
p2pnet news view P2P | Freedom:- Using Deep Packet Inspection technologies, Canadian ISPs may soon start ferreting through everything users do online and compiling profiles about them for targeted advertising, says the Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic (CIPPIC).
With that as background, Canada’s Privacy Commissioner should open an investigation into the practice, says CIPPIC.
DPI, used in so-called behavioural targeting, has been roundly criticised in Europe and the US.
A CIPPIC analysis concludes the practice probably violates the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA), and says ISPs who use it, “often fail to provide sufficient notice to users, do not obtain meaningful consent from users, and do not offer users effective ways to control such uses of their personal information”.
The US Congress recently held hearings on the topic and is considering passing legislation or issuing guidelines about the practice for industry self-regulation, says the law clinic.
Along with itse call for an industry-wide investigation of behavioural targeting, CIPPIC filed privacy complaints against Rogers Communications, Shaw Communications and Eastlink for their use of DPI in traffic-shaping, another controversial ISP practice that’s currently the focus of another CIPPIC complaint against Bell Canada, as well as the CRTC proceedings initiated by CAIP (Canadian Association of Internet Providers) against Bell Canada.
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initiated by CAIP – CAIP on Bell Canada traffic throttling: final, July 24, 2008
Europe and the US – targeted ad app NebuAd may be illegal, July 9, 2008
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July 29th, 2008 at 12:51 am
Now that the Bush patriot act has been invoked all hell is breaking loose and civil freedom and privacy notions are being abandoned