“For some, the collection of these data represent a grave violation of the privacy of American citizens. For others, the privacy issue is negligible, as long as it helps keep us safe from terrorism.There are indeed privacy issues at play here, but they aren’t necessarily the obvious ones. In order to put the most important questions into context, consider the following illustration of a metadata analysis using sample data derived from a real social network. The sample data isn’t derived from telephone records, but it’s close enough to give a sense of the analysis challenges and privacy issues in play.”
Over the last week, critics and defenders of the National Security Agency have heatedly debated the merits of metadata — information about the phone activity of millions of Americans that was given to…
Read it all: Evil in a Haystack – By J.M. Berger
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