Canada Privacy Commission DPI site
p2pnet news view Freedom | P2P:- Canada’s Privacy Commissioner has launched an important new P2P site to give detailed and in-depth information on DPI, Deep Packet Inspection or, as p2pnet prefers to call it, Deep Privacy Invasion.
“Deep packet inspection is just one seemingly neutral technological application that can have a significant impact on privacy rights and other basic civil liberties, especially as market forces, the enthusiasm of technologists and the influence of national security interests grow stronger.”
That’s the opening statement on the project launched by Privacy Commissioner Jennifer Stoddart.
Created as a resource on DPI, the site “grew out of a desire at the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada to understand more about a technology that has application in network traffic management, behavioural advertising, and law enforcement,” says director of research, education and outreach, Colin McKay, going on »»
In the summer and fall of 2008, we contacted leading academics and professionals working in telecommunications, law, privacy, civil liberties and computer science to ask if they would contribute a short essay to a project we were planning a project that would help Canadians understand the impact of just one component of the technology that underlies our networked society.
This site presents the work of these academics, lawyers, researchers, activists and industry professionals. We value the time they invested in preparing their essays, and we are happy to present their work in a format that will, hopefully, encourage further discussion around deep packet inspection and similar technologies.
Equally important,the site was developed with sharing in mind, says McKay, inviting anyone who has something to say to contribute through a written comment, or by voting on the essay.
“We have built in links to some of the more popular content sharing services, in case you think some or all of the essays should be brought to the attention of friends, colleagues, legislators or others,” he adds, also asking people to get in touch with him directly at cmckay @ privcom dot gc.ca.
Contributors so far include Susan Crawford, mooted as special assistant to president Barack Obama for science, technology, and innovation policy, Ronald Deibert, associate professor of political science and director of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, and co-founder and director of the OpenNet Initiative and Information Warfare Monitor projects, and »»
Harry Abelson
Hal Abelson is professor of computer science and engineering at MIT. Together with Ken Ledeen of Nevo Technologies and Harry Lewis of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society, they are the authors of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion (bitsbook.com).
Ralf Bendrath
Ralf Bendrath is a German political scientist and works at the Faculty of Technology, Policy and Management at the Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands. He hacked the Commodore C-64 in the eighties, studied security policy and information warfare in the nineties, and has been researching various aspects of internet privacy since then. His current research project is examining the various factors that influence DPI use or non-use. He is also a hard bloggin` scientist at bendrath.blogspot.com.
Roger Clarke
Roger Clarke is Principal of Xamax Consultancy Pty Ltd, Canberra. He is also a Visiting Professor in the Cyberspace Law & Policy Centre at the University of N.S.W., a Visiting Professor in the E-Commerce Programme at the University of Hong Kong, and a Visiting Professor in the Department of Computer Science at the Australian National University.
Richard Clayton
Richard Clayton is Treasurer of the Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) and a Visiting Industrial Fellow at the Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge. His technical analysis of the mechanics of the Phorm system can be found at http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~rnc1/080518-phorm.pdf. FIPR’s detailed legal analysis of the Phorm system, written by Nicholas Bohm, can be found at http://www.fipr.org/080423phormlegal.pdf.
Brooks Dobbs
Brooks Dobbs is the Chief Privacy Officer of Phorm. Prior to joining Phorm, he spent 9 years at DoubleClick where he most recently served as the Vice President of Data Protection and Government Relations. He is an author of the W3C`s Platform for Privacy Preferences, P3P, and the former chairman of the Network Advertising Initiative, the industry`s leading self regulatory body.
Bert Jaap-Koops
Prof.dr. Bert-Jaap Koops is professor of regulation & technology at TILT, the Tilburg Institute for Law, Technology, and Society of Tilburg University, the Netherlands. His main research interests are criminal law and technology, investigation powers, privacy, cybercrime, identity-related crime, DNA forensics, and cryptography. He is also interested in information security, identity, digital constitutional rights, ‘code as law’, and human enhancement. He currently co-ordinates a research program on law, technology, and shifting power relations.
Danielle Keats Citron
Danielle Citron is an Associate Professor at the University of Maryland School of Law. Her work focuses on information privacy law, cyberspace law, and administrative law, with an emphasis on legal issues surrounding the government`s reliance on information technologies. Professor Citron`s recent articles appear in the Boston University Law Review, Southern California Law Review, U.C. Davis Law Review, University of Chicago Legal Forum, and Washington University Law Review. She was voted the Teacher of the Year by the University of Maryland law school students in 2005. Before teaching, Professor Citron worked as a litigation associate at Willkie, Farr & Gallagher, where she served as a MFY Legal Services fellow. She also spent two years as a law clerk for the Honorable Mary Johnson Lowe of the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York. She received her B.A. cum laude from Duke University and obtained her law degree from Fordham Law School where she graduated Order of the Coif.
Stéphane Leman-Langlois
Stéphane Leman-Langlois is Associate Professor of Criminology at the University of Montreal’s School of Criminology. He has written about the social impacts of various technologies, especially biometrics, video surveillance and internet security. He is a member of the International Centre for Comparative Criminology (ICCC) and has worked on crimes against humanity, policing, technologies, terrorism and cybercrime. His concerns include the social construction of (in)security and the symbolic aspects of technology in the production of security and insecurity.
Paul Ohm
Paul Ohm is an Associate Professor of Law and Telecommunications at the University of Colorado in the United States. He specializes in computer crime law, information privacy, criminal procedure, and intellectual property. Prior to becoming a professor, he worked for the U.S. Department of Justice’s Computer Crime and Intellectual Property Section as an Honors Program trial attorney specializing in federal wiretap law. He most recent article, entitled “The Rise and Fall of Invasive ISP Surveillance,” is about Internet Service Providers and deep-packet inspection, and it is available for download at http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1261344 and will be forthcoming in the University of Illinois Law Review in 2009.
Christopher Soghoian
Christopher Soghoian is a student fellow at Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society and is a PhD candidate at Indiana University’s School of Informatics. His research interests involve security, privacy, cyber-law and technology policy – particularly with regard to phishing and other deception based attacks.
Anil Somayaji
Anil Somayaji is an Associate Professor in the School of Computer Science at Carleton University. His research interests include computer security, operating systems, complex adaptive systems, and artificial life. More information on his work and background is available on his home page at http://www.scs.carleton.ca/~soma.
Maxim Weinstein
Maxim Weinstein leads the StopBadware project (http://www.stopbadware.org/) at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society at Harvard University. In this role, he has spoken on malware policy and user education at conferences hosted by the Federal Trade Commission, the Anti-Spyware Coalition, and the Messaging Anti-Abuse Working Group. He also serves on the anti-phishing and K-12 education task forces of the National Cyber Security Alliance. Prior to joining Berkman, Maxim worked in a variety of positions involving technology, communications, education, and leadership across a range of industries. He is a graduate of Tufts University, from which he earned a master’s degree in teaching and a bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics and environmental studies.
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April, 2009
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April 6th, 2009 at 1:25 pm
I think the Privacy Commissioner should wage all out war on this practice.
If Bell Canada wants to do it to their own users, so be it. Tthen there should be full disclosure to their users.
The Privacy Commissioner should make them take it off of all wholesale ISP’s who want it off (and I mean physically gone). The wholesale ISP’s packets are not Bell’s business. They are playing cop & gatekeeper.
Does that office have the balls to do it though?
April 6th, 2009 at 3:05 pm
“If Bell Canada wants to do it to their own users, so be it.”
The trouble with DPI is that it looks at EVERY packet passing through the network that’s using it, including forwarded and relayed traffic.