Deep packet inspection
Internet
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What it does
Deep packet inspection looks inside the contents of network traffic, not only at the address on the envelope. It can classify or copy what a connection carries. In the United States this kind of real-time content interception is associated with federal wiretap authority. This card is labeled federal-level. It is not a documented Nevada practice.
Privacy watchdog concerns
No watchdog page is attached.
Constitutional issues
Unresolved question
Fourth Amendment
Warrant practice not established for a Nevada agency
Deep packet inspection: Deep packet inspection is labeled federal-level. No Nevada program is documented. The wiretap provisions are listed so a later record can be compared with them. No violation is claimed.
No decision in this library decides deep packet inspection by a Nevada agency. The wiretap statute is the provision to read if real-time content interception is later documented. It is not a finding.
Statutes attached to read, not findings.
- NRS Chapter 239. Nevada public-records law is the route to ask for contracts, policies, and logs. Citing it is not a finding that a surveillance practice is unlawful.
- 18 U.S.C. §§ 2510–2523. Federal wiretap provisions. Attached only to real-time content interception, as the statute to read. Not a finding of a violation, and no Nevada interception is documented here.
- 42 U.S.C. § 1983. A civil remedy for a deprivation of federal rights under color of state law. It is not a warrant statute, and it does not itself make a surveillance practice unlawful.
Nevada use
Not documented on this page. Labeled federal-level. No source in this file describes a Nevada deep-packet program.
Federal-level label. Not a documented Nevada practice.
See also: IP and ISP subscriber logs by legal process
Next record
Deep packet inspection: Leave this unverified. Do not describe it as a Nevada practice.
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