Campaign protests Virgin Media spyware
Alex Hanff, famous for leading the fight against privacy pirate Phorm, is now targeting Virgin Media, citing its reported use of DPI (deep-packet inspection). Britain’s Virgin Media says it plans to try a DPI (deep packet inspection) system called CView, “the first commercially available solution to provide a metric highlighting the volume and nature of Peer to Peer (P2P) file sharing activity on an ISP network,” claims its owner, Detica. But it, “does not, and cannot, identify individual Internet users,” it states, boasting it’s, “The only accurate way of providing a ‘digital piracy’ index to both ISPs and CPs is to measure the actual P2P activity taking place within an ISP network.” Raw traffic data and identification information are “deleted in the closed system and cannot be accessed by a human operator,” it promises.
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Campaign protests Virgin Media spyware
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