Even the most techno-phobic attorney likely could recite the often-used definition of metadata: “data about data.” However, there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

Multiple officials are now confirming that the National Security Agency’s practice of collecting all telephone metadata from Verizon, as first reported by the Guardian, is part of a program that has ...

We now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when -- “telephony metadata” -- for every call made on their networks, because of a secret ...

Mark Rix is affiliated with Amnesty International and International Commission of Jurists. Privacy and individuals’ ability to remain anonymous are important ...

Earlier this week, Mike Masnick of Techdirt complained that anyone who dismisses the NSA's collection of metadata around people's phone calls and emails (as revealed in the Snowden Leaks) "because ...