Sentence examples for said metadata from inspiring English sources

US officials have said metadata collection had helped important counter-terrorism investigations.

In a statement welcoming the decision, Brandis said metadata was "the basic building block in nearly every counter-terrorism, counter-espionage and organised crime investigation".

Allouche said Metadata isn't looking at everyone in the sales database, but rather qualified leads who have actually expressed interest in your product: "It makes our targeting very, very effective".

"The government says metadata is anonymous and it won't have an individual impact, but it will," Tim Singleton Norton, Chair of Digital Rights Watch, tells VICE.

The Commissioner's definition says metadata is "information associated with a communication that is used to identify, describe, manage, or route that communication.

"The government says metadata is anonymous and it won't have an individual impact, but it will," Tim Singleton Norton, Chair of Digital Rights Watch, told VICE back in April when the new laws came into effect.

Abbott said the metadata provisions would include "the usual range of safeguards, warrants", but metadata is collected without a warrant after an agency fills out a form.

Guardian journalist Gideon Laughlin published 24 hours' worth of his own metadata; it reads rather more like a postcard than a sealed letter.It should be said that metadata is already accessed in Australia by far more groups than just security agencies.

Coll said: The metadata collection can be used for criminal prosecutions and is used for criminal prosecutions..

The MEAA's chief executive, Paul Murphy, said: "Accessing metadata to hunt down journalists' sources, regardless of the procedures used, threatens press freedom and democracy.

Speaking on the New Yorker's latest Political Scene podcast he said such metadata had already been used to suppress whistleblowers.