http://www.dslreports.com/forum/r20002103 en Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:14:21 EDT Fri, 05 Dec 2008 05:14:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20002103 Noah Vail : With great FanFare, our Beltway Protectors passed the HIPPA act, insuring billions of dollars of compliance costs every year.

Exactly how many people, violate my privacy, through my medical records? It could be as many as Zero, per year. NOBODY CARES about my medical secrets. Most days, I don't care.

The worst part about these types of privacy laws is that they don't do anything to thwart the types of privacy violations that might actually occur.

Individuals rarely have any interest in somebody else's private data. Mostly, because peoples secrets are BORING. Half the time we can't get away from someone trying to verbally publish their life story to us, including medical.

Companies, on the other hand, violate my privacy every day. Why? Because it's LUCRATIVE.

The collection of purchases, habits, preferences, actions, memberships and other ancillary things that make up my life are my life's work. They are my creation, same as a song or book might be. I choose who I will distribute my life's work to, by interaction with them or story telling.

That other people can take my life's work and profit from it, when I have made no decision to market it, is piracy. It's not even personal use piracy (if such a thing exists), it's distribution for profit piracy.

HIPAA has done nothing to protect me.

I'm pretty sure the CEO of Henry Schein, my local sheriff, or the IRS could acquire my complete medical history if they truly wanted it. Any of the above have far more chance of impacting my life in a way I do not desire, then farmer Burt and Aunt Ethel in PikeSnot MN. Yet, HIPAA targets Burt and Ethel and ignores people with actual power.

Maybe that was a HIPPA goal, to maintain the existing power structures.

Now I have a huge government intelligence entity who is actively pursuing (and getting) as complete a copy of my internet traffic as possible. The whole argument for FISA wiretaps is that they wouldn't impact Burt and Ethel calling about their grandchildren.

Now the NSA is attempting to collect every email Burt and Ethel will ever send about their grandkids, and their bank account traffic, and their purchase habits, and....

Is anyone here getting this? The NSA is moving toward the goal of permanently recording everyones complete internet history. They have been taking bids on the database development and equipment necessary to store and sort what they collect. We are moving closer to cost efficiency of parsing and maintaining those huge data stores.

How many years until ISPs will be forced to regularly forward their IP assignment and use records? I bet we see movement on it in less than 5 years. (Yea, whatever. 5 years ago you thought the idea of the NSA copying main internet pipes was paranoid.)

I don't understand
why so many people
who want a warrant
for law enforcement to share
a small part of their life,
will turn around and allow LE to copy their life's data with no accountability at all.

Why yes, that WAS the stupidest thing you've ever seen Americans do.

You are not your own for much longer. We are all becoming wards of the state.

NV
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Abortion: A Republican Plot to Thin the Liberal Herd.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20002103 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 15:23:34 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001924 Kearnstd : if it doesnt raise network capacity or stability its not really a worthy cost use. if i where an investor id not want the company whos stock i own to waste money on piracy filters when they could be say upgrading to fatter pipes.
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[65 Arcanist]Filan(High Elf) Zone: Broadband Reports]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001924 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:53:21 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001842 anon : Dave:

The BBC's report is less than clear, but I didn't read the article as implying that monitoring was technically impossible, but only technically hard/problematic - given the context/framework in which the monitoring occurs.

That is, as I understand it, it's virtually impossible for the monitoring device/software to distinguish between *legal* P2P file sharing ('fair use' academic uses of media; sampling, etc.) and P2P sharing of pirated material. The inability of the monitoring device/software to make a judgment call (this here is legal file sharing; that over there is illegal file sharing) IS a technical limitation.

]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001842 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 14:46:28 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001522 Noah Vail : Thanks for the report Dave. Very good stuff.

Looks like I have some reading to do...

Nv
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Abortion: A Republican Plot to Thin the Liberal Herd.]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001522 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:47:42 EDT http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001340 daveberstein : I hate this stuff, but The BBC report on this is naive. While "net providers said legal and technical
barriers prohibit them from being anything other than a 'mere conduit'," seems reasonable to many, and I support, the technology is there and will be used in some countries.

In Europe, Deutsche Telekom is saying they will specifically do that. At what I believe massive cost (probably around $1B, but no hard data), DT has built a network designed to track "Every session, of every customer, all of the time," as their people openly discussed at the BBWF in Berlin a few months ago. Key suppliers Siemens, Alcatel, and Cisco at the same event presented on how they could do that, each suggesting their equipment was the best for the purpose. Other European carriers are considering similar, with unconfirmed rumors Telecom Italia is doing so.

DT explained this was so they could sell QOS to content providers. This post is about whether the technology can be made to work with sufficient spending; let's discuss Net neutrality issues elsewhere.

I know the chief British regulator, Ed Richards of OFCOM, knows this issue because the DT plan was discussed at length when he visited a Columbia seminar (including my strong statements against it.) His German peer, Matthias Kurth, and the EU Commissioner, Vivane Reding, have also discussed it at public meetings. So if we don't want monitoring, we need to show why it's wrong, not rely on the claim it's technically impractical.

Neither DT nor AT&T have put this equipment to extensive use, but their opinion that it can be done will convince most in Europe. The telcos in Europe are enormously attracted to the idea, as numerous consultants and manufacturers suggest they will make a heck of a lot of money selling services. That's totally unproven, but my take after two visits to Europe is that most (70-90%) of the people in the telecom business think that's the future.

These are important issues, so getting the facts right is worth the effort.

Dave Burstein
Editor, DSL Prime]]> http://www.dslreports.com/forum/remark,20001340 Fri, 15 Feb 2008 13:16:39 EDT