Google prepping broadband-monitoring tools

When it comes to your broadband connection, Google wants you to know that it has your back. The Internet giant is developing a suite of tools to help broadband users identify traffic discrimination by their Internet service providers. "We're trying to develop tools, software tools...that allow people to detect what's happening with their broadband connections, so they can let (ISPs) know that they're not happy with what they're getting--that they think certain services are being tampered with," Google Senior Policy Director Richard Whitt said during a panel discussion at the Innovation '08 conference. "If the broadband providers aren't going to tell you exactly what's happening on their networks, we want to give users the power to find out for themselves."
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