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Revisiting MetaData – Your Life Made Visible

Posted on November 17, 2016 by markorton

In the current moment much of the concern about privacy online and otherwise has been overwhelmed by Trump, inequality, racism and other matters. The NSA and other spies, government and corporate, are not taking a vacation.  I wrote earlier about this in  “The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata” in July, 2013.

Recently I revisited Immersion: a people-centric view of your email life, the MIT project to visualize a tiny portion of the metadata1 of our lives, our emails. Continue reading →

  1. metadata = a set of data that describes and gives information about other data. In the case of email this includes date and time; to, cc, bcc recipients; and subject line. [↩]

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Posted in politics, web & software | Tagged Google, metadata, MIT, national security state, NSA, nsa national security agency, secrecy, security, security state, spy
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