Privacy Commissioner Requested to Investigate Bell Canada Over Filtering
Date : 2008 05 11 Category : Web News
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The Canadian Internet Policy and Public Interest Clinic recently announced that they are making a request to the privacy commissioner to investigate Canadian major Internet Service Provider Bell Canada. The complaint is directed at Deep Packet Inspection technology.
Internet Service Providers (ISP) have a legal sore spot these days - that sore spot is internet intervention on the ISP level. In Canada, a form of that sore spot may be in the form of Deep Packet Intervention and its impact on privacy. Considering the kind of privacy laws Canada has, it may prove very interesting to see where this goes.