Corporate Spying Software being used by Iranian Government to Arrest Activists

The technology used by corporations to control your Internet access and tag your websites for future exploitation by advertisers, is being used by the Iranian government to crack down on the all so important web-protesters in their country. My employer Free Press has an article. According to the Wall Street Journal, Iran and China are likely using Deep Packet Inspection technology to monitor and control the Internet. This spring, a Free Press report, Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?, argued that DPI technology poses a major threat to the open Internet, giving network providers unprecedented power over Internet users. The use of DPI by U.S. companies like Comcast and Cox has already sparked widespread concern about abuses of Net Neutrality and online privacy. The Wall Street Journal reports that the Iranian government appears to be using this same technology "to not only block communication but to monitor it to gather information about individuals, as well as alter it for disinformation purposes." The Chinese government is believed to be using DPI to implement its "Great Firewall," "widely considered the most advanced and extensive censoring in the world" -- an "arrangement that depends on the cooperation of all the service providers." Your corporations helping suppress and kill innocent Iranians and Chinese people. RSS