[LINK] RFI: Boomerang Traffic

[Roger Clarke]

A colleague in Canada has conducted an interesting project on:

     Data Privacy Transparency of Canadian ISPs:
     http://ixmaps.ca/transparency.php

Among other things, it co-opts the 'boomerang' concept:  "A boomerang 
route is a data packet path that starts and ends in Canada, but 
travels through the USA for part of the journey".

Angela Merkel's Schengen Net notion addresses the same issue from a 
European perspective.

He's asked me about the Australian situation.

To what extent does traffic from an end-point in Australia to another 
end-point in Australia travel outside Australia?

Is that only via the USA, or are there intermediaries in Asia as well?

And to what extent does traffic from an end-point in Australia to 
another end-point in Australia travel entirely within Australia but 
pass through one or more devices controlled by companies that are 
subject to extra-territorial reach by another government?

(Naturally there's the USA, with its PATRIOT Act, FISAA and now 
search-warrant-based demands on all US companies operating 
everywhere.  But there's also Singtel Optus, and there's Huawei.  And 
maybe other instances?).


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