Surprise! It's Super Easy to Identify People From Metadata

Surprise! It's Super Easy to Identify People From Metadata

Dec 26th 2013, 18:00, by Robert Sorokanich

When the NSA's tracking of US citizens was revealed, the agency was quick to point out that it's not actively listening to your phone conversations. But the agency is tracking who you call, when, and for how long — your metadata. The NSA's claims that metadata is anonymous have never been fully comforting, especially now: Stanford researchers say connecting an individual's name to phone metadata isn't just easy, it's "trivial."
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