He has never been charged with a crime.Does Mr Hertzberg really need to have it explained how the government aggressively seeking this sort of "metadata" might chill Mr Appelbaum's normal expressive activities?
Instead, the content partners have to fix this sort of metadata.
While we can all disagree about where the quotes and angle-brackets should go, at the end of the day I think we all can agree that this sort of metadata is good for the web.
It doesn't merely copy the video track from the DVD, though, as Real DVD is able to tap into some sort of metadata server, adding thing like movie descriptions, posters, etc. (Sounds a lot like what Plex does when using the Library mode).
The government has morphed that to mean they can collect all sorts of metadata, on everyone, forever.
SpringPad goes out to the Internet, pulls all sorts of metadata, then stores said data for you on its Web site.
Robert Scoble, for instance, suggests the idea of a SuperTweet with all sorts of metadata that pops up when part of the message is rolled over with your mouse.
In summer 2016, for example, a major T&Cs change sought to link WhatsApp users' accounts with their Facebook profiles (and thus with all the data Facebook holds on them) — as well as sharing sensitive stuff like your last seen status, your address book, your BFFs in Whatsapp and all sorts of metadata with Zuck's 'family' of companies.
Even worse, ECPA currently allows law enforcement to access all sorts of metadata without obtaining a warrant.
Tunebox had already done a relatively good job of sorting through song metadata in Dropbox to organize files in its interface.
CX's CEO Brad Robertson tells us that platform also sorts through the metadata of files being uploaded, allowing users to view and move through files based on data included.
