Public Knowledge President and Co-Founder Gigi Sohn testified in front of the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation this morning, at a hearing entitled “Broadband Providers and Consumer Privacy”. Alongside Gigi, the hearing also featured testimony from representatives for AT&T, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. Gigi spent the majority of her time focusing on Deep Packet Inspection (DPI), a technology that–as you may know–is receiving a great deal of Congressional scrutiny as of late. “Simply put, Deep Packet Inspection is the Internet equivalent of the postal service reading your mail,” Gigi said. “They might be reading your mail for any number of reasons, but the fact remains that your mail is being read by the very people whose job it is to deliver it.”
- Read Gigi’s oral statement here and her written statement here
- And go here to watch an archived webcast of the hearing
Thanks to Robb Topolski for the screenshot