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What Is “Meta” about Meta? 0

Fresh Air’s Geoff Nunberg explores the conceptions, misconceptions, and misinformation about “metadata,” in particular statements from James Clapper, director of National Intelligence, that, somehow, metadata isn’t really data.

A nugget:

. . . (C)alling it metadata doesn’t make the process any less intrusive. Tell me where you’ve been and who you’ve been talking to, and I’ll tell you about your politics, your health, your sexual orientation, your finances.

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