Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Monday marks 688 days since I first asked Telstra for the metadata generated by my mobile phone - the same information it routinely ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I'm in a non-descript building in Sydney's central business district. In a hearing room inside are 13 people. Five work for Telstra, six ...

We are all going to have to get used to the word metadata. Explaining what it means in simple terms is quite tricky, for it is a genuinely abstract concept. (And let me warn the purists up front that ...

One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information ...

The word “metadata” achieved buzzword status in 2013. That’s when whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked documents exposing a National Security Agency program that collected telephone metadata in bulk — ...

In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands of Canadians as they moved about the country. The tracking all ...

Before the advent of digital photography, adding information about photographs was easy: You simply wrote in the margins or on the back of a snapshot. Turn it over and there was the information: ...