[ga] UK ISP TalkTalk Caught Monitoring Its Customers

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All, and especially Debbie,

  Maybe this will be coming to other UK ISP's in the near term.
So Debbie, best to be on your best behavior online at all times,
eh?  >;)  What's even more shameful here is that it appears that
a Chinese firm was chosen to take on this endeavor to insure that
UK citizens aren't self harming themselves.  I guess that the UK
government has a rather low opinion of it citizens collective
or individual judgments online and also says that ICANN's ISP
constituency is unable of unwilling to self regulate adaquately.
How shameful!  >:(  

See: 
http://yro.slashdot.org/story/10/07/27/0016216/UK-ISP-TalkTalk-Caught-Monitoring-Its-Custo%7C

The UK ISP http://broadband.talktalk.co.uk/ TalkTalk has been caught using
a form of Deep Packet Inspection technology to 
http://www.ispreview.co.uk/story/2010/07/26/uk-isp-talktalk-monitoring-its-customers-online-activity-without-consent.html
monitor and record the websites that its customers visit, without getting 
their explicit consent. The system, which is not yet fully in place, 
ultimately aims to help block malware websites by comparing the URL 
that a person visits against a list of good and bad sites. Bad sites 
will then be restricted.  TalkTalk claims that its method is totally 
anonymous and that the only people with visibility of the URL database 
itself are Chinese firm Huawei, which will no doubt help everybody to 
feel a lot better (apply [2]sarc mark here) about potentially having 
their privacy invaded.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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