Some commenters contend that this rule promotes the widespread use of tape recorder technologies by telephone providers and that such monitoring poses a threat to customers’ privacy rights. Certainly, many telephone providers have tape recorders for inspection of voice on their networks,785 and consumer privacy is a paramount concern in the Telephone age. [..] Consumers also have many tools at their disposal to protect their voice against tape recorders — including speaking into a muffler.
Obviously, that is completely insane, so why would we accept that nonsense on the internet? Why would the regulating agency accept deep packet inspection and simultaneously recommend TOR when they are the very agency that is meant to prevent degrading the network?
We'll still need TOR, but at least it won't be Verizon listening in. Note the junior level Orwellian language here, where they list a bunch of reasons why DPI shouldn't be allowed only to follow it up with a Nevertheless, we believe that states the opposite while giving zero reasons for doing so. If they wanted to believe in something, they should have opened up a church. From a government agency, that's an insult.
It would not be easy to legislatively protect consumers from deep packet inspection, because the FCC would need to agree on a suitable definition of "deep packet inspection." I fail to see many reasonable paths to accomplishing that without simltaneously interfering with real network monitoring policies and best practices.
Personally I'm happy that the FCC acknowledged the complaint of DPI, but also acknowledged the tools to defend against it if need be. They are actually avoiding additional legislation, by refusing to limit DPI and therefore define it in law.
I do wonder if this acknowledgement of VPN/Tor, which must certainly be one of the first in the history of executive agency legislation, will simply be the first of many. I hope this tacit acknowledgement does not tumble into subtle discouragement in future legislation.
Everyone's far too busy celebrating how they think this will bring them fast, cheap, reliable internet to be concerned about insignificant things like privacy.
Some commenters contend that this rule promotes the widespread use of tape recorder technologies by telephone providers and that such monitoring poses a threat to customers’ privacy rights. Certainly, many telephone providers have tape recorders for inspection of voice on their networks,785 and consumer privacy is a paramount concern in the Telephone age. [..] Consumers also have many tools at their disposal to protect their voice against tape recorders — including speaking into a muffler.
Obviously, that is completely insane, so why would we accept that nonsense on the internet? Why would the regulating agency accept deep packet inspection and simultaneously recommend TOR when they are the very agency that is meant to prevent degrading the network?
We'll still need TOR, but at least it won't be Verizon listening in. Note the junior level Orwellian language here, where they list a bunch of reasons why DPI shouldn't be allowed only to follow it up with a Nevertheless, we believe that states the opposite while giving zero reasons for doing so. If they wanted to believe in something, they should have opened up a church. From a government agency, that's an insult.