So, what is metadata? During the recent kerfuffle about how much spying the NSA and GCHQ are carrying out on absolutely everyone with a life in cyberspace, the word “metadata” kept cropping up. In this context, the word was used mainly with reference to emails. Email messages have metadata associated with them and the apologists …
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US government snooping? What about our own Snoopers Charter?
Why is our media getting upset by the NSA and not by our own Snoopers Charter? The recent storm over data privacy – The Guardian 06/06/13 – has not been caused by the US government accessing private data (it does) but by the fact that it has been receiving wholesale, comprehensive data of Verizon customers, …
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