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Path: news.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: JAB <here@is.invalid> Newsgroups: misc.news.internet.discuss Subject: Re: FBI now cares about metadata harvesting when its their data being targeted Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 10:29:59 -0600 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Lines: 22 Message-ID: <vno6ia$p3em$1@dont-email.me> References: <679f74ca$16$16$882e4bbb@reader.netnews.com> Reply-To: JAB <here@is.invalid> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Injection-Date: Sun, 02 Feb 2025 17:30:02 +0100 (CET) Injection-Info: dont-email.me; posting-host="c12fc2d00ea9a68419b551bf7ed0c53e"; logging-data="822742"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX19knyD9+vlLT/bIWVYJNprj" User-Agent: ForteAgent/8.00.32.1272 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3adr58VXS4ZckfauAu9Q1Q9KsDg= On 02 Feb 2025 13:36:10 GMT, Retrograde <fungus@amongus.com.invalid> wrote: >Phone Metadata \ Jun 2, 2016 The word "metadata" achieved buzzword status in 2013. That's when whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked documents exposing a National Security Agency program that collected telephone metadata in bulk -- along with other surveillance schemes deemed unsavory by electronic rights watchdogs. Since then, metadata collection has been invoked in court proceedings, innumerable opinion pieces and an Oscar-winning documentary as one of the most egregious violations of personal privacy. On Monday, former U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder said Snowden "performed a public service" -- albeit an "inappropriate and illegal" one -- by sharing the secrets. Yet, most people couldn't describe, step-by-step, how metadata are used to piece together personal secrets. https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/your-phone-metadata-is-more-revealing-than-you-think