If you're gonna try to explain to non-technical people maybe you should choose your title more carefully. Metadata itself is not bad. It's how it is used and wh

If you're gonna try to explain to non-technical people maybe you should choose your title more carefully. Metadata itself is not bad. It's how it is used and who has access to it. The thing that's bad here is: 1) Lack of personal control over your own meta data. You can' go to Google and say "Erase everything you know about me." easily. Some Google services allow you to do something like this, others don't, it's purposely a big pain in the ass. That goes for all these big companies. 2) Most (all?) governments have too much easy access to this data, and no public disclosure or oversight about what/who they are looking at and for what reasons.