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Re: Hearings unlikely to get very far
At the moment, there seems to be some hesitancy to saying that the ECPA applies to DPI. (Why wouldn't it? I don't know.)
DPI is the internet version of wiretapping. Wiretapping has good and lawful uses and the permissions and restrictions for wiretapping are set in law. DPI is a useful tool for network maintenance and other lawful purposes, nobody wants to end those. What we do want is clarity over when its use on our communications networks crosses the line into inappropriate uses.
discl.: I am Chief Technologist of the Open Technology Initiative of the New America Foundation and I speak for them as well as myself on this issue. (As a long-time member of DSLReports, I usually speak only for myself and therefore don't use such a disclosure.)
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