Sentence examples for metadata gathering from inspiring English sources
As far as Oliver Stone goes, he is a master film-maker and I'm sure anything he creates is worthy of study, but I think historical accuracy isn't his intention, or he would probably have focused more on the unjustifiable release of details of other programs than the eavesdropping and metadata gathering.
That amendment, which barely failed in a 205-217 vote, would have effectively rescinded the government's authority to operate phone metadata gathering schemes in the United States.
Over the last two months, the legal basis for the Obama administration's massive telephony metadata gathering program has been challenged by a spate of lawsuits filed by plaintiffs ranging from the American Civil Liberties Union to a birther attorney in Florida.
Mass metadata gathering is less susceptible to the needle-in-a-haystack problem than mass content gathering, because it is so readily machine-analyzable.
"I have a love-hate relationship with the N.S.A.," Bamford joked when I spoke to him last week, in the wake of the revelation that the N.S.A. is gathering metadata from telecommunications and Internet companies.
In a letter dated 3 January, Senator Bernie Sanders of Vermont defined "spying" as "gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business".
Sanders, in a letter dated 3 January, defined "spying" as "gathering metadata on calls made from official or personal phones, content from websites visited or emails sent, or collecting any other data from a third party not made available to the general public in the regular course of business".
As for the NSA, so far it hasn't even been willing to answer the question of whether it's been spying on, surveilling, or gathering metadata on members of Congress.
Snowden, 29, had been working as an NSA contractor as an employee of Booz Allen Hamilton and leaked documents to The Guardian newspaper of London and The Washington Post showing that the agency has been gathering so-called metadata from Verizon Wireless customers and Internet data as part of a secret program called PRISM.
On a deeper level, the metadread of metadata stems from its unlimited nature (gathering data on people without end) paired with its awesome immutability, like the mysterious black slab in Stanley Kubrick's "2001: A Space Odyssey".
He added that another intelligence gathering tool — the telephony metadata database — "does not compare in importance to 702," arguing baldly that: "We can't lose 702".
