Hey, that's great that you understand this to the extent of articulating why metadata gathering is a problem - but I assure you that the "metadata isn't data" r

Hey, that's great that you understand this to the extent of articulating why metadata gathering is a problem - but I assure you that the "metadata isn't data" rhetoric GP mentions is, in fact, the tactic I see most often in the wild. So calling it "technical jargon" is pretty accurate - people encounter this confusing word "metadata" and have no idea what it means or how to reason about it.