As I have stated before I take my privacy extremely seriously. It isn’t so much that I try to hide anything, but rather I want control of how I use that information, it is mine after all. If you think that sounds strange think of the copyrights that studios have on movies. They can control when a film is shown, by whom, and if you violate their notice they can sue you. I want the same rights.
Rogers has recently begun injecting advertising (in this case a notification) into users web experience.
At the moment this is merely notifications about reaching bandwidth limits, however there is something much more incideous at work here. Deep Packet inspection allows ISPs to monitor and edit the content of the pages you are viewing. So instead of reading “George Bush is a war monger and Dick Cheney is the devil” it could be changed to “George Bush is a President of the United States and Dick Cheney is the vice-president”
Rogers confirmed that the notices are being added to pages, but denies plans to engage in more extensive content manipulation.
According to Rogers communications VP Taanta Gupta “There is no deep package inspection and there is no privacy issue.” This is obviously erroneous. Since this notification is appearing on a Mac based browser (evident in the style of buttons) and no developer would write something like this for such a small user base. The changes have to be done on a HTML level which means messing with the user’s packets.
It looks like it is time to find a new ISP.