The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has argued that councils should be able to skirt metadata laws for the purpose of pursuing a breach of the law, citing high-crime activities such as ...

Metadata from web traffic generated by smart devices installed in a home can reveal quite a lot of information about the owner's habits and lifestyle. According to research published this month by ...

Spotify confirms it was not hacked after reports of a large data scrape. Here's what was accessed, what wasn't, and what it means for users.

Three providers of metadata in the Baltic states have merged their activities to create media-press.tv Baltic. The companies are media-press.tv A.G. (based in Zurich, Switzerland), EPGservice Baltic ...

According to Anna’s Archive, the dataset covers more than 99 percent of Spotify listens. The archive called it “the largest ...

Just how does the NSA piece together all that metadata it collects? Thanks to "newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials," The New York Times today shed light on how the agency plots out ...

CSEC might not be doing anything to worry about, but more oversight might be in order anyway On the morning after the CBC reported that the Communications Security Establishment was using airport ...

The word “metadata” achieved buzzword status in 2013. That’s when whistleblower Edward Snowden leaked documents exposing a National Security Agency program that collected telephone metadata in bulk — ...

A week ago, most Canadians were unlikely to have heard of Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) and its program gathering "metadata" on untold numbers of global phone calls and online ...