What is “Metadata”? The NSA’s PRISM Scandal Makes an Obscure Term Common
In case you hadn’t heard, the United States’ National Security Agency (NSA) has been gathering metadata from U.S. domestic communications about U.S. citizens and people world-wide, without a specific...
View ArticleDataveillance: Why Metadata IS Data
In my profession, we recognize we have given metadata a vague definition. We define it as “data about data”. My metadata could be your data, and vice versa. The reason we have a somewhat vague...
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