A spy on your cell phone and laptop, what is DPI, the device that is listening to your every "move"

2025-04-03 13:49:32Pikëpamje SHKRUAR NGA EMIRJON SENJA
Emirjon Senja

The deployment of Deep Packet Inspection (DPI) devices in companies that distribute the Internet without a regulatory package on data use is a more than bold action, bordering on madness and illegality, and will most likely be one of the biggest scandals and the subject of daily chronicles. The story has only just begun, in fact.

Vodafone Albania and One Telecomunications, which have already installed and put into use these devices, must be transparent with citizens, but also accountable to the law and show under what circumstances they accepted the installation and provision of access to their networks.

The announcement of the Tik Tok shutdown came just after these devices were installed at Vodafone and One. A friend showed me photos of these devices installed at one of the companies.

Experts in the field such as Besmir Semanaj and Tomi Kallanxhi have sounded the alarm about the installation of the devices in question, also speaking about the great risk they pose, such as controlling internet traffic by having access to websites visited by citizens and their content; communications and all online activity.

It's like setting up a screen record on your computer or mobile phone and allowing what appears on your screen to be seen by others.

Imagine living in a glass house, without curtains, an extremely "transparent" society, as Yevgeny Zamyatin describes in the novel "We".

It is the practice of societies like ours to use various situations, such as the current Tik Tok argument, to control citizens, and DPI are extremely dangerous devices if data passes through the hands of irresponsible individuals. We have had endless examples of such in recent years in Albania.

Do you remember how they pulled down the pants of the AKSHI where salaries, cell phone numbers, bank accounts were exposed?

On the other hand, AKEP has filled a list of around 13,000 blocked applications and websites with the alleged aim of blocking Tik Tok, while there are complaints that access to the websites of international online sales companies has also been blocked.

A huge mess, without transparency, leaving huge spaces for abuse.

 


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