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The Uses of Metadata – an experiment you can conduct with your own life’s metadata

Posted on July 9, 2013 by markorton

With the recent revelations of the NSA vacuum cleaner collecting metadata about every aspect of our lives1 we have been subjected to calming incantations, “We are only collecting metadata, we aren’t looking at the content”. As I (and many others) have pointed out earlier, this is complete nonsense.  Continue reading →

  1. We are forced to assume that they are collecting everything, emails, telephone calls, financial transactions, text messages, anything digital which is virtually every aspect of life unless you took to the woods before 2000 and have been subsisting in an entirely cash economy without any communications that re not face to face. The tangle of lies by every government offocial involved will not support any other sensible interpretation. [↩]

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Posted in politics, web & software | Tagged immersion, lies, metadata, MIT, NSA, vacuum cleaner
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