[AfrICANN-discuss] ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Standard Behind Closed Doors, Ignores Huge Privacy Implications

[Jean Robert Hountomey]

by Glyn Moody
ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Standard Behind Closed Doors, 
Ignores Huge Privacy Implications from the and-they-want-us-to-trust-them?
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20121203/07493221209/itu-approves-deep-packet-inspection-standard-behind-closed-doors-ignores-huge-privacy-implications.shtml


Techdirt has run a number of articles about the ITU's World Conference 
on International Telecommunications (WCIT) currently taking place in 
Dubai. One of the concerns is that decisions taken there may make the 
Internet less a medium that can be used to enhance personal freedom than 
a tool for state surveillance and oppression.
Against that background, a story published by the Center for Democracy & 
Technology about the ITU's work in the area of standards takes on an 
extra significance:
The telecommunications standards arm of the U.N. has quietly endorsed 
the standardization of technologies that could give governments and 
companies the ability to sift through all of an Internet user's traffic 
-- including emails, banking transactions, and voice calls -- without 
adequate privacy safeguards. The move suggests that some governments 
hope for a world where even encrypted communications may not be safe 
from prying eyes.

More here

http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_item.aspx?isn=7082
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/12/06/dpi_standard_leaked/
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/2229964/itu-approves-deep-packet-inspection-standard-behind-closed-doors