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From the article, "(Metadata describes basic information on who has been contacting whom, without detailing the content.)". Could someone let the journalists k
by o0-0o 13y ago
From the article, "(Metadata describes basic information on who has been contacting whom, without detailing the content.)".
Could someone let the journalists know what metadata really is? I mean, come on. Metadata is a concise, highly valued description of the data, also including identifying information. In other words, keywords!
For this comment, the keywords (metadata) might be:
Journalists
Metadata
Meta
Data
Article
- inthewind 13y agoI think your definition of meta-data is too narrow. It's not just keywords. Excuse me if I state the obvious, but with something like a web page access, the meta data will be in part: your internet address, what time you accessed it, the referring url etc. A phone call's meta data could include the length of the call, which phone the call was made on, which mast was used etc. Meta data is additional data about the data isn't it? One assumes that you could then make telling deductions from that meta data. Like a persons movements (acquired from phone, financial and internet records). You can also draw a lot about their character: their interests, their political views, their cicles etc. The meta data is very revealing in itself.