jaminus
join:2004-10-14
Arlington, VA
| reply to funchords
Re: "Public Shame" does not keep a telecom honest...
Statistically speaking, the vast majority of Comcast subscribers were unaffected by Comcast's implementation of Sandvine (right?) so it's not all that surprising that public shame alone did not cause Comcast to change its behavior. NebuAd-style DPI, however, casts a far wider 'net' than P2P upload TCP resets, so it would presumably incite 'public shame' to a greater extent.
Also, having multiple sets of privacy guidelines is probably better than having a single set. The same privacy practices that make sense for your ISP to follow probably wouldn't make a whole lot of sense when applied to, say, Google. Consider that nobody is (seriously) calling for a ban on Gmail, which is sustained by ads that rely on inspecting all user emails for keywords. If an ISP were to do this, it would be considered wiretapping (by many, at least). |
