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A human rights watchdog has asked the European Commission to assess the legality of software being used to analyse file-sharing in the UK.The software in question is called CView and will be used by ISP Virgin Media to identify legal versus illegal traffic on its network.The EC has said it will monitor the use of the software, following a complaint from Privacy International.Virgin Media countered that the software posed no risk to privacy.Privacy International has concerns about the software, designed by monitoring firm Detica.It utilises so-called deep packet inspection, which means that it can identify actual file-names, making it possible to accurately find out what content is legal and what is not.
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