The US government says phone metadata—the numbers you dial and the length of your calls—don't include sensitive information. Well, that's not exactly true.

20/12/2018 · Metadata is the data you don’t see when you read your email or SMS message or take a phone call. Metadata is the information about the content of an electronic communication, but does not include the content. Metadata is the data that provides all the details the recipient, the author, the length, the language, the date and time of the message, Descriptive metadata is typically used for discovery and identification, as information to search and locate an object, such as title, author, subjects, keywords, publisher. Structural metadata describes how the components of an object are organized. An example of structural metadata would be how pages are ordered to form chapters of a book 10/10/2014 · The RSPCA, councils and other law-enforcement agencies can obtain reporter Ben Grubb's internet and phone metadata but Telstra won't release it to him. Here he details his 15-month fight for access. Such mobile phone data sets have been used in other scenarios – for example to model the potential spread of the Ebola epidemic in West Africa.. However, the use of mass telecoms metadata is 31/10/2019 · During the same intrusions into the unnamed phone company, APT41 also sought individuals’ records from call detail record (CDR) databases, which provide metadata such as the time the calls were made, the phone numbers involved, and the length of the conversations.

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Phone metadata is unambiguously sensitive, even over a small sample and short time window. We were able to infer medical conditions, firearm ownership and more, using solely phone metadata," Mayer When his phone is in one place, you can assume he’s having lunch, perhaps with someone else he called the day before, which can be ascertained through metadata. When his phone is moving at a lightning pace along specific coordinates, you know he’s on a particular train. Depending on the accuracy of the GPS, one might also be able to know the train car in which he sat. 2/06/2016 · Metadata have historically received fewer legal protections than actual communications content, such as audio from a phone conversation or text message transcripts, to the disdain of privacy

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