The privacy & security research paper series

This research paper analyses societal implications of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) technologies.   Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) surveillance technologies are communications surveillance tools that are able to monitor the traffic of network data that is sent over the Internet at all seven layers of the OSI Reference Model of Internet communication, which includes the surveillance of content data. The analysis presented in this paper is based on product sheets, self­descriptions, and product presentations by 20 European security technology companies that produce and sell DPI technologies...

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