How European telcos are monitoring our online activity – Katherine Barnett

The security and privacy of personal data are being jeopardised as Deep Packet Inspection is deployed by internet service providers.

Europe has not escaped the global move towards ‘ surveillance capitalism ’. Numerous pieces of legislation are under consideration which put online freedoms and privacy at risk—the UK’s Online Harms white paper is just one example. Now European telecommunication companies and internet service providers (ISPs) are also under scrutiny for their use of invasive practices which disregard user security and infringe users’ right to privacy. Deep Packet Inspection The European Digital Rights (EDRi) organisation recently discovered that European telcos were monitoring internet connections and traffic

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