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December 5, 2012 10:53 am PST
Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/d_tAFHSs51U/uns-international-telecommun.html
UN's International Telecommunications Union sets out to standardize bulk surveillance of Internet users by oppressive governments
The International Telecommunications Union, a UN agency dominated by veterans of incumbent telcoms who mistrust the Internet, and representatives of repressive governments who want to control it, have quietly begun the standardization process for a kind of invasive network spying called "deep packet inspection" (DPI). Other standards bodies have shied away from standardizing surveillance technology, [...]Original Link: http://feeds.boingboing.net/~r/boingboing/iBag/~3/d_tAFHSs51U/uns-international-telecommun.html
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