Metadata collection comes under fire in new UN anti-surveillance draft resolution
The draft proposal would make data retention laws taboo. As with the earlier anti-surveillance resolution it builds upon, this one comes from Brazil and Germany.
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Most UK carriers give cops automated access to customer call records
As revealed in a Guardian investigation, carriers EE, Vodafone and Three are going beyond the terms of the U.K.’s data retention laws to make it even easier for the authorities to access customer metadata.
NSA to lose control of telephony metadata, according to report
Barack Obama will announce on Friday that he intends to take telephony metadata out of the hands of the National Security Agency,…
MetaPhone study shows how easy it is to link phone number “metadata” to real people
We’ve long known that the U.S. government’s explanation that it only collected “metadata” related to the phone numbers it has been hoovering…
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Feds reportedly used phone database to track “burner” use
Burner phones provide a cheap, disposable tool to hide your communications — it will be no surprise that spy services are taking an interest in them.
Slides show secret NSA program to take data from internet firms, feds claim “inaccuracies” in reports (Updated)
The federal government is facing more troubling accusations about how it is using meta-data to spy on its own citizens.
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Gracenote co-founder on ‘iPod day’ and better music through data
More than a decade ago, Gracenote received some cryptic advice from Apple to buy more servers. What followed — the launch of iTunes and iPod — blew up Gracenote’s database to epic proportions and laid the groundwork for a metadata empire.
Hulu to Users: Tag, You’re It
Hulu took a step toward crowdsourcing its classification and discovery capabilities this morning, adding the ability for users to add tags to…
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Where’s the Easy Access to Tagging in OS X?
On the web, we’ve been tagging everything for at least a couple of years now. We tag bookmarks, photos, applications, blog posts,…
Metadata in OS X: Wrap Up
I think we’ve covered a lot of ground in the past 4 weeks, talking about Metadata in OS X. While it’s clearly…
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Answering Metadata Screencast Questions
The Metadata Screecast that I posted yesterday generated enough questions that I felt it necessary to address them in a post, rather…
The Metadata Screencast: Part Three
A dead drive created a minor slow-down in getting this out, but an extra drive and a quickly restored backup and I’m…
Metadata in OS X: Part Two
Last week I began talking about using metadata effectively in OS X. I think I stirred the honey pot a bit by…
