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Re: packet inspection and privacy
From: David Charlap <david.charlap () marconi com>
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 10:09:57 -0400
Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
Mark Kent writes:I recently claimed that, in the USA, there is a law that prohibits an ISP from inspecting packets in a telecommunications network for anything other than traffic statistics or debugging. Was I correct?No. Or at least you weren't; the Patriot Act may have changed it. (I assume you're talking about U.S. law.)There was a quirk in the wording of the law -- what you say is correct for *telephone* companies, but not ISPs.
You're referring to "common carrier" status, I think.This isn't exclusively restricted to phone companies, but that's the way it is right now. I think it may also apply to non-voice carriers that sell circuits. I'm pretty certain that it does not apply to ISPs.
A common carrier is not allowed to monitor/filter traffic on customer circuits. They also can't be held responsible for the traffic on those circuits.
-- David
Current thread:
- packet inspection and privacy Mark Kent (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy Valdis . Kletnieks (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy batz (Jun 24)
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- Re: packet inspection and privacy blitz (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy Dave Stewart (Jun 24)
- RE: packet inspection and privacy Mark Radabaugh (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy Dave Stewart (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 24)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy David Charlap (Jun 25)
- Re: packet inspection and privacy Steven M. Bellovin (Jun 25)