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ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection
dsinc sends this quote from Techdirt about the International Telecommunications Union's ongoing conference in Dubai that will have an effect on the internet everywhere:
"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. The new Y.2770 standard is entitled 'Requirements for deep packet inspection in Next Generation Networks', and seeks to define an international standard for deep packet inspection (DPI). As the Center for Democracy & Technology points out, it is thoroughgoing in its desire to specify technologies that can be used to spy on people. One of the big issues surrounding WCIT and the ITU has been the lack of transparency — or even understanding what real transparency might be. So it will comes as no surprise that the new DPI standard was negotiated behind closed doors, with no drafts being made available."
Sorry for the flamebait here, but goddamn!
They *clearly* know that these measures are against the public interest, and are only desirable for reasons that are directly counter to a free and legitimate government; that the voting publics that they represent would never willingly agree to this kind of "microscope colonoscopy" type surveylence if they knew what it really meant.
That's why the fuckers do closed room and secret fucking "negotiations" to plan, orchestrate, and implemet bullshit like this.
About the only way to combat this is to make closed room negotiations so undesirable from a political career standpoint that the slimeballs treat like radioactive waste.
Something like immediate no-confidence being enacted for mere participation or something, and blacklisting from ever running for public office ever again.
Of course, such strong measures would never make it passed the slimeballs to begin with.
Fox fucking owns the henhouse.