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Here's an interesting idea from law professor Paul Ohm, suggesting that rather than focusing on net neutrality laws, if we just had stronger privacy laws, ISPs would be barred from doing any kind of deep packet inspection, since it would violate your privacy. This seems a lot more reasonable to me than focusing on new telco laws.

Behavioral tracking of consumers online in order to deliver relevant advertising is a privacy issue that is receiving a lot of attention, and one that has been the focus of Federal Trade Commission and consumer group scrutiny.

Lawmakers in Washington took a break from dealing with the economy this morning to examine one piece of controversial technology that big companies are quickly distancing themselves from - Deep Packet Inspection. read more

By Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer Progress Snapshot 4.19 (PDF) Over the last year, a debate has raged in Washington over “targeted online advertising,” an ominous-sounding shorthand for the customization of Internet ads to match the interests of users.

By Berin Szoka & Adam Thierer Progress Snapshot 4.19 (PDF) Over the last year, a debate has raged in Washington over "targeted online advertising," an ominous-sounding shorthand for the customization of Internet ads to match the interests of users.

warner brothers and thankfully I’m stupid 0 Add a Comment Friday, September 5th, 2008 by leftystrat Morning time is the time I hate most at work. The trip up the steps and through the main floor is always deceptive.  There are only a few people there already and one can sleepily drift toward one’s desk.  And that’s where the problems start.

If you use Gmail and haven’t yet taken advantage of a feature Google recently provided to prevent hackers from hijacking your inbox, now would be an excellent time to do that (click here, and read Tip #1).

Darknet has released it’s list for the Top 15 Security/Hacking Tools and Utilities. Many of these I’ve seen before and should be familiar to a lot of people, but there may be a few nuggets you haven’t seen before. Topic include network scanning, wireless security, password cracking, etc.

A couple of quick tips to start the week, which were stimulated by reader questions. Tip(s) of the day: How about that? Two for the price of one! Tip 1) In response to public demand, Google has added a feature to its Gmail service which will force it to always use SSL encryption when you logon (https).

On July 17, 2008, the House Telecommunications and Internet Subcommittee examined the practice of deep packet inspection (DPI), a method for networks and third parties to determine what information users (identified by IP addresses or random ID numbers) are searching for and accessing on the Internet in order to tailor more relevant advertising based on an individual’s interests.