Do ISP's collect and analyze traffic of users?

Mon May 15 23:05:58 UTC 2023

I’ve got Akvorado and netflow to identify where traffic comes in/goes to so we can improve our peering and make less traffic go via transit. I did see an article about Team Cymru selling netflow data from ISPs to governments though. https://www.vice.com/en/article/dy3z9a/fbi-bought-netflow-data-team-cymru-contract

Rishi Panthee
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On May 15, 2023, at 5:59 PM, Michael Thomas <mike at mtcc.com> wrote:

And maybe try to monetize it? I'm pretty sure that they can be compelled to do that, but do they do it for their own reasons too? Or is this way too much overhead to be doing en mass? (I vaguely recall that netflow, for example, can make routers unhappy if there is too much "flow").

Obviously this is likely to depend on local laws but since this is NANOG we can limit it to here.

Mike

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