Analyzing the Risks of Deep Packet Inspection on Personal Information Security: Abstract - Proposed Idea

Since the beginning of the digital age, keeping users’ privacy and preserving their right to have control over who can collect and use their personal information has been becoming more difficult. With the rapidly increasing targeted ads campaigns, user profiling, and selling of data to third-party companies, violating the privacy of users’ information has become an imminent risk that needs to be addressed and mitigated.<br>Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) is a widely used intrusive observation tool to monitor the incoming and outgoing data of a network (Corwin, 2011). It scans the packets of data thoroughly to check for malicious software. While this inspection is a critical security measure to find patterns in the ever-evolving threats (Rodrigues, et al., 2017), it also raises privacy concerns about the nature of user data that is kept or shared by such tools.