In the last few months metadata has become a buzz word especially with the Edward Snowden disclosures. The response of the establishment has consistently been that the US Government and its agencies, specifically the NSA do not monitor calls and e-mails but only the metadata to determine if the risk of any threat is present.
The question that comes to mind is what exactly is metadata and how useful is it. I found an interesting and thought provoking article which definitely merits a read.
Thoughts on Two Propositions: The “Power of Metadata,” and Providing Privacy Protections to Foreigners
By Carrie Cordero
And then I came across this YouTube video that is amazing. It not only answers the question of metadata, but also shows its application in real life and then provides a web software that will do it for you. A must watch.
The Power of Metadata: Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov at TEDxCambridge 2013
by TEDxTalks
MIT Media Lab graduate students Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov share some surprising insights from Immersion, a tool they built to make sense of email metadata. Try out Immersion yourself and learn more about the team behind it at
https://immersion.media.mit.edu
The question that comes to mind is what exactly is metadata and how useful is it. I found an interesting and thought provoking article which definitely merits a read.
By Carrie Cordero
And then I came across this YouTube video that is amazing. It not only answers the question of metadata, but also shows its application in real life and then provides a web software that will do it for you. A must watch.
The Power of Metadata: Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov at TEDxCambridge 2013
by TEDxTalks
MIT Media Lab graduate students Deepak Jagdish and Daniel Smilkov share some surprising insights from Immersion, a tool they built to make sense of email metadata. Try out Immersion yourself and learn more about the team behind it at
https://immersion.media.mit.edu
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