Innovation in Network Measurement Can and Should Affect the Future of Internet Privacy

lotuseclat79 · May 12, 2017

Innovation in Network Measurement Can and Should Affect the Future of Internet Privacy

As most readers are likely aware, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) issued a rule last fall governing how Internet service providers (ISPs) can gather and share data about consumers that was recently rolled back through the Congressional Review Act. The media stoked consumer fear with headlines such as “For Sale: Your Private Browsing History” and comments about how ISPs can now “sell your Web browsing history to advertisers“. We also saw promises from large ISPs such as Comcast promising not to do exactly that. What’s next is anyone’s guess, but technologists need not stand idly by.

Technologists can and should play an important role in this discussion in several ways. In particular, conveying knowledge about the capabilities and uses of network monitoring, and developing both new monitoring technologies and privacy-preserving capabilities can and should shape this debate in three important ways:
(1) Level-setting on the data collection capabilities of various parties;
(2) Understanding and limiting the power of inference; and
(3) Developing new monitoring technologies that help facilitate network operations and security while protecting consumer privacy.
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-- Tom

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