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> Thanks to the wonderful world of metadata that got Edward Snowden exiled, Google (and Facebook and phone companies and the NSA) already has a great idea of no
by capitalsigma 11y ago
> Thanks to the wonderful world of metadata that got Edward Snowden exiled, Google (and Facebook and phone companies and the NSA) already has a great idea of not only what you do online,
IMO this shows the author doesn't really know what he's talking about --- the metadata that the NSA collects has literally nothing to do with the tracking data that Google and Facebook collect.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoThe NSA are according to the Snowden files extracting data from Google Facebook etc's databases. Both with and without the companies knowledge and cooperation. I.E. They are literally the same thing in some cases.
- capitalsigma 11y agoThat's separate from the issue of metadata collection, which is only relevant to phone companies.
- JupiterMoon 11y agoI would suspect that the NSA put all their data (and metadata is really just data) together.