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Re: Feedback Request – Embedded Child Protection Solution for Telcos (Academic Research)


From: Måns Nilsson via NANOG <nanog () lists nanog org>
Date: Fri, 27 Jun 2025 06:28:06 +0200

Hi all,

I'm part of a postgraduate team at Dublin City University working with Chirp, a startup developing real-time, 
embedded child-protection software for telecom operators. The solution analyzes data traffic on children’s devices to 
block harmful content and alert parents to risks such as grooming, cyberbullying, or self-harm — all while respecting 
privacy and working natively within telco infrastructure.

As part of our MSc practicum, we’re seeking feedback from telecom and network professionals on the commercial, 
technical, and regulatory feasibility of such an approach.

This proposal has the hallmarks of Jeremy Benthams Panopticon,
being a naïve attempt to use radical transparency for good, seemingly
beneficial reasons, with no regard to the myriad of bad uses it
will immediately utilised for.   As such, it will fail the Bentham
utilitarian test, seeing as the balance between good and evil will
topple rapidly in the wrong direction.

As you have been told repeatedly, in many different ways, it is in
effect a very bad idea and should go no further than meeting this
polyphonic choir singing "No".

/Måns, late to the party.
--
Måns Nilsson     primary/secondary/besserwisser/machina
MN-1334-RIPE           SA0XLR            +46 705 989668
I'm reporting for duty as a modern person.  I want to do the Latin Hustle now!

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