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So? why is that distinction important to you?
by TedDoesntTalk 4y ago
So? why is that distinction important to you?
- SketchySeaBeast 4y agoI believe because they are saying the distinction ISN'T important. It's just data, used to make a choice.
- lordnacho 4y agoI think he's saying that people are defending the use of data by calling it something that makes it sound less intrusive
- jrogan993 4y agoMetadata seems less significant a word and trivializes it a bit IMO. Data on the other hand is a "serious" word that we can make decisions on.
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- thekiptxt 4y agoI think OP is suggesting that “just metadata” is a sensationalist title, because to a lay person it suggests that decisions predicated on metadata are uninformed compared to decisions predicated on “data,” even though this isn’t necessarily true. If the title were “We kill people based on data,” then the knee jerk response might be “… obviously.”
- mcguire 4y agoHow about "We kill people based on poor quality, indirect data"?
- t_mann 4y agothe way agencies like the CIA use the term metadata, it is very much inferior to full "data". metadata is just the record of the time, date, parties,... of a phone call, without the voice record of the call. the latter would arguably make for a much better source of information (because you'd know what was actually said, could match the voices,...).