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From ZDnet:
If Comcast thinks you're downloading copyrighted material, you can be sure it'll let you know. But how it does it has raised questions over user privacy. The cable and media giant has been accused of tapping into unencrypted browser sessions and displaying warnings that accuse the user of infringing copyrighted material -- such as sharing movies or downloading from a file-sharing site.
Jarred Sumner, a San Francisco, Calif.-based developer who published the alert banner's code on his GitHub page, told ZDNet in an email that this could cause major privacy problems. Sumner explained that Comcast injects the code into a user's browser as they are browsing the web, performing a so-called "man-in-the-middle" attack. (Comcast has been known to alert users when they have surpassed their data caps.) This means Comcast intercepts the traffic between a user's computer and their servers, instead of installing software on the user's computer.
A Comcast spokesperson said in an email on Monday that this is "not new," adding that engineers "transparently posted an Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) white paper about it" as early as 2011, which can be found here.
(Score: 2) by edIII on Wednesday November 25 2015, @11:06PM
They're probably are, or at they're at the very least being strongly contemplated. It's completely irrelevant though, since the industry acts like victims under attack from immoral highwaymen, and totally and completely refuses to participate at all.
The industry does whatever the fuck it wants, whenever it wants to do so.
All of those billions U.S taxpayers gave them in the form of government handouts, easements, eminent domain land seizures, etc. are complete and totally wasted. The industry took the money, as if it were free gubermint money(tm) with no string attached, and used it for trips, hotels, hookers, houses, etc. whatever. Government actually needed to tell them recently to use these funds only for their intended purposes. The industry believes it owes nothing to anyone, and everything is owed to it though the explicitly superior morality of the Capitalist system.
Over 90% of America came together, cooperated, participated, and said quite loudly to the industry that we did in fact want "dumb pipes" and all of the "bullshit" to stop. The industry has literally tried to bring the entire country to its KNEES financially by using their corrupt influences to hijack politicians into throwing the monkey wrench into the great machine. If they can't have their industry with zero regulations, we don't get an entire fucking country and a way of life.
Regulations against this bullshit? That implies these people are even willing to play as if they are regulated at all. The industry is completely out of control with sociopaths willing to bring our country down if they can't have their abusive monopolies. You already have a major, major, government agency, the FCC, attempting to regulate. Attempting..... and failed. How can the FCC regulate shit when the corporations it regulates have the power to remove their budget for the year? The industry has never acted in good faith with America for one single second, and we've never actually taken them to task for their abject failures in delivering on their contractually obligated duties to provide free or discounted service to schools, libraries, rural areas, etc.
I don't have the power to get a highway patrolman fired for trying to give me a ticket, and have them end up unemployed. Which is good damn reason why they're are effective regulations against me doing 130mph in the fast line whenever I feel like it. The industry in a very real way is saying, "I'll destroy you!!! You'll never work in this town again you hear me!!! Do you know how I am????!!!!!", when confronted with the regulators. In our world we might find ourselves on TV with people shaking their heads at our entitled attitudes. In Congress, these people have their asses kissed when acting this way.
That's why there are no effective regulations against this deeply entrenched anti-consumer behavior.
Technically, lunchtime is at any moment. It's just a wave function.