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41. Metadata is extremely useful and informative

Reply to Benton D Struckcheon (Original post)

Sun Jun 23, 2013, 05:33 PM

Jun 2013

There is a reason the grocery store wants you to use your phone number or "discount card" - they sell the metadata to advertisers and use it themselves.

One just has to look at Google to see how profitable metadata is - its Googles business model.

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The real problem Snowden revealed, and why Obama is especially dangerous [View all] Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 OP

I think it's the dashes or other odd characters in the url that break the 'link' button function. nt Electric Monk Jun 2013 #1

Link worked for me think Jun 2013 #2

I meant the DU hyperlink function, to make a block of text a working link Electric Monk Jun 2013 #7

ahh. misunderstood. TY /nt think Jun 2013 #14

I saw Susan Landau interviewed a few days ago and she explained the Meta Data KoKo Jun 2013 #3

Correct it's behavior modeling. This turns galileoreloaded Jun 2013 #5

Voice calls are line switched. Downwinder Jun 2013 #4

Yes. They reveal one part to make it all seem innocent, but really they haven't fessed up to the dkf Jun 2013 #6

These cases can take decades to go thru the courts; for example" Melinda Jun 2013 #8

At the time of the Patriot Act, Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #10

One point to make about Sen. Di Feinstein - she is NOT truedelphi Jun 2013 #47

This message was self-deleted by its author Downwinder Jun 2013 #13

my intuition was right undergroundpanther Jun 2013 #9

You have to abstract away from this Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #31

Metadata hasn't had constitutional protection, ever Recursion Jun 2013 #11

Not so sure about that Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #18

LOL ,Feinstein the liberal Dem bahrbearian Jun 2013 #12

Can I suggest you address your selective editing above pkdu Jun 2013 #15

I used the three dots thing to indicate where I edited, Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #17

Your para 2 and para3 has missing sentences between . Fair enough on the ....I used to do same pkdu Jun 2013 #21

Hmm. Why? Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #22

Most criminals , esp. Federal Crimes are smarter at evading capture than you give them credit for.. pkdu Jun 2013 #24

You remember when Olbermann had that whole thing on dumb criminals? Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #28

"Ellipsis points are used to represent an omission from a direct quotation when it is cited ..." panzerfaust Jun 2013 #49

The generally accepted standard here at DU seems to contrary to writingxxx.yyy pkdu Jun 2013 #66

Obama didn't give this a legal structure. That legal structure was put into place pnwmom Jun 2013 #16

Which Obama said he would Debate and Change ,, in 2007. bahrbearian Jun 2013 #23

There were changes after Obama was elected -- things were even worse before. pnwmom Jun 2013 #25

So when is he proposing to debate and Change it Its been 4 years. Wait and Hope. bahrbearian Jun 2013 #26

You're not getting it Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #27

He still says debate it treestar Jun 2013 #30

It would be the single best thing he did. n/t Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #32

He has had 4 years to bring this to debate this,he needs a bill to sign,unless he signs blank pages. bahrbearian Jun 2013 #33

At this point it is far easier to count up the things that O truedelphi Jun 2013 #48

It's all starting to turn into jello in my head, but I'm pretty sure that passage of HardTimes99 Jun 2013 #62

...as a journalist... FirstLight Jun 2013 #19

Use a Tracphone or something similar. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #20

I think the opposite treestar Jun 2013 #29

This is what bothers me. Blue_In_AK Jun 2013 #34

Exactly n/t Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #35

Question 90-percent Jun 2013 #36

Kind of, although technically they weren't collecting in 1997. I think. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #37

Constitutionality is in the eye of the beholder. HomerRamone Jun 2013 #38

HUGE K & R !!! - Thank You !!! WillyT Jun 2013 #39

Same here - It was encouraging to read this truedelphi Jun 2013 #54

So, by this argument intaglio Jun 2013 #40

No - not if you give them permission FreeState Jun 2013 #44

When you sign up for a phone, have you read all the T & Cs? intaglio Jun 2013 #70

Metadata is extremely useful and informative FreeState Jun 2013 #41

First ProSense Jun 2013 #42

What you're pointing out is true in a narrow sense, Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #60

Great post. Thank you. ~nt 99th_Monkey Jun 2013 #43

There was an article in DISCOVER magazine a few months back that describe how this data is used rwsanders Jun 2013 #45

But it is more than establishing a profile. truedelphi Jun 2013 #52

thanks for linking to her site madrchsod Jun 2013 #56

I agree completely, just trying to point out that even "Metadata" isn't innocuous rwsanders Jun 2013 #67

I should alert on this- complaining about the link button. No whining about DU. In other news, silvershadow Jun 2013 #46

Once more the ACLU steps into the breach to defend an ignorant public Lefty Nast Jun 2013 #50

"he has managed to give this thing a legal framework within which it can be done." KamaAina Jun 2013 #51

And this metadatabank gives the executive branch JDPriestly Jun 2013 #53

Obama is especially dangerous? liberal N proud Jun 2013 #55

yes it would. madrchsod Jun 2013 #57

Whats with the title? DCBob Jun 2013 #58

mr "bent on destruction" (how clever), and other true geniuses on Du i suppose... dionysus Jun 2013 #59

Yes. Why do you ask? Did you read the OP? Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #61

Yeah, I read it and didnt see those particular words. DCBob Jun 2013 #63

Yes, they're my opinion. Benton D Struckcheon Jun 2013 #64

glad we cleared that up. DCBob Jun 2013 #65

I Think RobinA Jun 2013 #68

... Scurrilous Jun 2013 #69

Obama also signed the NDAA section 1021, providing for the indefinite detention of US citizens Fire Walk With Me Jun 2013 #71