[Chapter-delegates] Stalking or reasonable traffic analysis?

[Narelle Clark]

This interview with Geoff is even more illustrative:
http://www.zdnet.com/hands-off-our-packets-its-the-law-7000000082/

Keen to hear people's thoughts!

What would your chapter members think? Would this fly in your
jurisdiction? Would they be prosecuted? Or not?


Narelle


> I'm curious as to what others think on this situation.
>
> Recently the largest operator of mobile (actually all telcom/Internet
> networks) in Australia was found to be relaying every visited URL, with
> minimal stripping, made by its network users to a third party inside the
> USA.
>
> A few customers discovered this when checking their servers and noticed an
> odd request for an identical page that they had only just visited
> themselves.
>
> The network operator has claimed not to have broken any laws, especially
> since it strips any items from the URL after a '?' so you won't get full
> password, username etc, but you will get very precise, obscure, account
> based URLs.
>
> Suffice to say its customers were not impressed. Many complaints were
> generated in the press. The USA has much weaker privacy legislation than
> Australia, and dare I mention the US Patriot Act applying to data and
> transactions inside the USA.
>
> Here is a sample of an article describing the issue:
> http://www.theage.com.au/technology/technology-news/telstra-accused-of-next-g-web-stalking-20120705-21ivs.html
>
> short form: http://bit.ly/OrDvPs
>
> and our hero Geoff Huston's angry commentary:
> http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2012-07/allyourpackets.html
>
>
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