Alvaro
Depends what you call snooping...
BT in the UK has a trial of Phorm
(http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/09/29/bt_phorm_trial_go/) where they
listen to your traffic to deliver targeted advertising.
Or do you mean something like Iran's deep packet filtering:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124562668777335653.html#mod=rss_whats_news_us
Or do you mean ISP logging:
http://www.tinhat.com/internet_privacy/isp_data_collection.html
Bill
On Tue, 2009-06-23 at 13:27 +0100, alvaro at gilabert.org wrote:
> I remember some time ago a thread about the implementation of ISP
> snooping in Ireland (together with France, the United Kingdom and
> Sweden) despite the opposition of the EU Parliament on the grounds it
> could be illegal.
>> Anybody knows if this has been effectively legislated and is now in
> place? Also, since I am sure that we have people from eircom and BT in
> the list, what is the position of both companies?
>> Cheers,
>> Alvaro
>>
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