Google Hires Georgia Tech To Build Internet Monitoring Tools
Ars Technica reports Google has given a $1 million grant to a team at Georgia Tech in order to build tools to help users around the world monitor the internet for free.
The goal is to build key12927 web-based tools any user can use that enables them to detect Internet throttling, government censorship, and other key12928 transparency problems. It will let key12916 users verify that their ISPs are delivering the upload and download speeds they were promised. It will let users learn if their governments are blocking or modifying the Internet without their knowledge. It will basically help users know if they are being cheated from the raw internet.
Google may increase the $1 million grant by an additional $500,000 extension if the team needs another year of development key12920 time and if Google key12924 likes the path the team is going.
Georgia Tech told Ars Technica the tool will provide “a suite of Web-based, Internet-scale measurement tools that any user around the world key12922 could access for free. key12925 With the help of these tools, users could determine whether key12921 their ISPs are providing the kind of service customers are paying for, and whether the data they send and receive over their network connections is being tampered with by governments and/or ISPs.”
Wenke Lee, a computer science key12918 professor at the school key12923 gave an example of how the tool will help. He said, “say something happens again like what happened in Egypt recently, when the Internet was essentially shut down. If we have a community of Internet user-participants in that country, we will know instantly when a government or ISP key12926 starts to block traffic, tamper with search results, even alter Web-based information in order key12929 to spread propaganda.”
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