Did anybody think the government wasn’t doing this? Of course. Anything they deny they are doing.
Germans Loved Obama. Now We Don’t Trust Him.
Excerpt:
That was my motivation for publishing the metadata I received from T-Mobile. Together with Zeit Online, the online edition of the weekly German newspaper Die Zeit, I published an infographic of six months of my life for all to see. With these 35,830 pieces of data, you can follow my travels across Germany, you can see when I went to sleep and woke up, a trail further enriched with public information from my social networking sites: six months of my life viewable for everybody to see what exactly is possible with “just metadata.”
Three weeks ago, when the news broke about the National Security Agency’s collection of metadata in the United States, I knew exactly what it meant. My records revealed the movements of a single individual; now imagine if you had access to millions of similar data sets. You could easily draw maps, tracing communication and movement. You could see which individuals, families or groups were communicating with one another. You could identify any social group and determine its major actors.
All of this is possible without knowing the specific content of a conversation, just technical information — the sender and recipient, the time and duration of the call and the geolocation data.
Your posts are typically fantastic.
Is it just ME this time?
The title strongly suggests this post centers on domestic espionage, but my read shows very little of that in the body of the posting.
I re-read a couple times, and am I just nuts or something? I don’t get it.
Again, typically I relish your posts.