The document also specifies that such "metadata" is not limited to the aforementioned items.
A scandal that's wrapped around the term "telephony metadata" is not going to get people bent out of shape.
It's difficult to have an informed opinion about the National Security Agency's collection of "metadata" without understanding what "metadata" is, not that that's stopped anyone.
"It's not up to the AFP to talk about appointing the ombudsman to oversee the scheme that can ensure metadata is not misused by law enforcement.
We have heard that surveillance of Americans' phone records, aka metadata, is not actually surveillance at all – it's simply the collection of bits of information.
The Supreme Court had ruled in 1979 that metadata was not covered by the Fourth Amendment, but the content of phone calls and e-mails certainly was.
In early March of 2004, Deputy Attorney General James Comey, who was serving as the acting Attorney General while John Ashcroft was in the hospital, determined that three of the four STELLARWIND programs were legal, but that the program involving the bulk collection of Internet metadata was not.
"There are always ways for people to get around things, but of course a lot of people don't, and that's why I've always said the data retention laws, the use of metadata, is not a silver bullet," Turnbull said.
Estimates of C and N dynamics both fell along a 1 1 line indicating that the model parameters could be adequately described by the measured properties, but the available metadata was not able to describe C dynamics with high precision.
The work required to enter metadata was not seen as a major burden, depending on the frequency and scale of data that is deposited.
"Having spent the last three years running M-GO, I have come to realize how important metadata is — not just to M-GO and companies like it, but to the entire ecosystem," Batter told me in a phone conversation.
