Tag Archives: Metadata

One of the big arguments for more government surveillance, is that they're only ever after metadata. While that is rarely true, in the cases that it is, it's cited as being just a record of your calls, not the content of them. But it turns out that knowing who was …

Since the original Edward Snowden revelations came out just over a year and a half ago, it's become very easy to feel despondent about the whole thing. “Of course they're spying,” is almost as often said now in the comment sections of these articles as the “if you have nothing …

While Obama might be happy to keep telling people that the NSA isn't interested in reading your texts, the kind of legislation that makes it possible for countries like the US and the UK to spy on citizens and store huge amounts of metadata on who's calling who and when, …

When the NSA spying revelations were first revealed, it was clear American metadata was being used when it came to tracking down terrorists – though it wasn't particularly useful – but Obama and others made bold statements that suggested “nobody [at the NSA] is listening to [American] telepohone calls.” However now …