Sentence examples for metadata revealed from inspiring English sources

Leon said that the mass collection of phone metadata, revealed by the Guardian in June, was "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary" in its scope.

Leon said that the mass collection of phone metadata, revealed by the Guardian in June, appeared to be an "indiscriminate" and "arbitrary" invasion of privacy.

This was perhaps inevitable after the programme's overwhelming rejection by Congress, and after a US court of appeal ruled that the bulk collection of telephone metadata revealed by Snowden was unlawful.

In fact, the metadata revealed quite a lot.

Post-hoc functional characterization of clusters via BrainMap metadata revealed that lateral regions of the FP mapped to memory and emotion domains, while the dorso- and ventromedial clusters were associated broadly with emotion and social cognition processes.

By using public information and cheap commercial databases to map phone numbers to businesses, organizations, and social media profiles, metadata revealed the location and identity of most of the people, the team reports today in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

That was always a hollow defense — metadata reveals a great deal that is properly private, as Jane Mayer explains — but it is especially meaningless now, in the face of what appears to be a sprawling effort to look over the shoulders of Internet users.

And he's done it, in the best tradition of computer hackers, using off-the-shelf resources: he has scoured through previously secret court filings for technical details about the NSA's activities, and he built an app that users can install on their phones to see how much their call metadata reveals.

Congress banned the bulk collection of telephone metadata – first revealed by National Security Agency whistleblower Edward Snowden in the Guardian in 2013 – by passing sweeping NSA reforms in the USA Freedom Act earlier this month.

A month after the metadata is revealed to the public in stories, based on Snowden's leaks, in the Guardian and Washington Post, Clapper writes to the Senate Intelligence Committee to apologize for his testimony on March 12th.

On Wednesday evening, the House voted 217 to 205 to kill an amendment that would have confined N.S.A. phone surveillance to identified suspects of law enforcement investigations instead of the broad "metadata" collections revealed last month by Mr. Snowden's disclosures.