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Agree. The non technical folk have latched on to a specific use of the word "metadata" completely ignorant of the broader use. They should just say "data" but "

• DanBC 11y ago
  The non technical meanings are "metadata" and "content". The use of "metadata" word is designed to make it sound less scary - it's a word that politicians use when they want to reassure people. "We don't want the content! We just want the metadata - how long a call lasted for, for example". It's a good thing that people are a bit scared about metadata. It's the metadata attacks that make tor hard. It's the metadata attacks that make end-to-end encryption weakers. Companies collect a lot of data. They should be thinking carefully about how much they actually need, and how harmful it is to their users if it gets slurped.