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In the heart of the Silicon Valley, legal doctrine is emerging that will determine the course of civil rights and technological innovation for decades to come. The Center for Internet and Society (CIS), housed at Stanford Law School and a part of the Law, Science and Technology Program, is at the apex of this evolving area of law.

Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) and Net Neutrality

by Stuart Soffer, posted on March 22, 2009 - 2:02pm

A paper by M. Chris Riley and Ben Scott called Deep Packet Inspection: The End of the Internet as We Know It?, is available at:
http://www.freepress.net/files/Deep_Packet_Inspection_The_End_of_the_Int...

This addresses the uses of DPI for packet prioritization (or enhancing throughput for a fee), scanning for search terms and inserting interstitial tracking, and FCC cases.

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