---------- Forwarded message ---------- From: Jean Robert Hountomey <jrhountomey@gmail.com> Date: Thu, Dec 6, 2012 at 2:19 PM Subject: [AfrICANN-discuss] ITU Approves Deep Packet Inspection Standard Behind Closed Doors, Ignores Huge Privacy Implications To: africann@afrinic.net 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-pack... 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-in... _______________________________________________ AfrICANN mailing list AfrICANN@afrinic.net https://lists.afrinic.net/mailman/listinfo.cgi/africann -- Barrack O. Otieno +254721325277 +254-20-2498789 Skype: barrack.otieno http://www.otienobarrack.me.ke/