This article is a great eye opener – to exactly how invasive metadata is. Metadata is the unseen header information that accompnies every digital transmission, whether internet browsing, email sending, or even making a phone call from a normal telephone.
Supposedly, this is non-invasive because the content of the email, website, or phone call is not included. But… you'll be surprised just how much can be inferred from metadata, such as when you are at home, your probable religious and political affiliations, and so on.
English version of the article: https://www.bof.nl/2014/07/30/how-your-innocent-smartphone-passes-on-almost-your-entire-life-to-the-secret-service/
Geheimdienste sammeln Metadaten über die Kommunikation aller Bürger. Die Politiker wollen uns glauben machen, dass diese Daten nicht allzu viel aussagen. Ein Niederländer hat das überprüft und das Gegenteil demonstriert: Metadaten verraten viel mehr über dein Leben, als du denkst. Dieser Gastbeitrag von Dimitri Tokmetzis erschien zunächst im niederländischen Original auf decorrespondent.nl. …
Don't you know … that's how the British caught Paul Revere?
http://kieranhealy.org/blog/archives/2013/06/09/using-metadata-to-find-paul-revere/
Yep, I'm an Econometrics geek .. these are my funny papers .. is that sad? :/
Oh, awesome. Thanks. 🙂
The original was in dutch. There's a semi-official endlish translation here: https://www.bof.nl/2014/07/30/how-your-innocent-smartphone-passes-on-almost-your-entire-life-to-the-secret-service/
https://translate.googleusercontent.com/translate_c?depth=1&nv=1&rurl=translate.google.com&sl=auto&tl=en&u=https://netzpolitik.org/&usg=ALkJrhjI-wzEu_1f5gb3wUDhpBa6xEQayQ
I'll have to read this at home, on Chrome, when I can translate it. 🙂