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 <https://labs.rs/en/invisible-infrastructures-surveillance-achitecture/>, Internet service providers <https://labs.rs/en/as/>, Internet companies <https://labs.rs/en/invisible-infrastructures-online-trackers/> such as Google or Facebook, data dealers or producers of mobile phone applications <https://labs.rs/en/invisible-infrastructures-mobile-permissions/>. 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. […] Continua qui: https://labs.rs/en/metadata/