E' di ottobre 2015 ma non mi sembra fosse passato in lista.
juan carlos
Metadata Investigation: Inside Hacking Team
October 29, 2015
21 minute read
Once online, our every movement, every click, sent or received
email, our every activity produces a vast amount of invisible
traces. These traces, once collected, put together and analysed, can
reveal our behavioral patterns, location, contacts, habits and most
intimate interests. They often reveal much more than we feel
comfortable sharing.
Most of those traces are hidden in metadata, i.e.
tiny pieces of information stored in IP packets, headers of your
emails or files that you are creating.
There is an ongoing debate over the significance of metadata. We
wanted to question а somewhat heretical argument that bulk
metadata contain sensitive information about private life of
internet users and confront it with a ruling opinion that such
statement is overrated. We have therefore undertaken the following
social and scientific experiment using different methodologies.
The purpose of this research is to investigate and consequently
inform the scientific and popular audience about the real
importance of metadata for our privacy.
In our previous research we explained how metadata is being
collected and accessed by numerous actors – government agencies, Internet service
providers, Internet companies such as Google or
Facebook, data dealers or producers of mobile phone applications. We explained the
invisible infrastructure behind data flow, but we never had a
chance to investigate what these actors can really do when they
have access to a vast amount of metadata about you. This data
investigation is exactly about that.
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Continua qui: https://labs.rs/en/metadata/