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Metadata is spying (c) Bruce Schneier

If a CIA spook is stalking you everywhere, documenting your every visible move or interaction, you probably would call that spying. Same applies to digital.

Also, teapot argument can be applied in reverse. We have all these documented open digital network systems everywhere, and you want to say that one the most unprofitable and certainly the most expensive to run system is somehow protecting all user data? That belief is based on what? At least selling data is based on evidence of the industry and on actual ToS'es of other similar corpos.



The comment you replied to isn't saying that metadata isn't spying. It's saying that the spies generally don't have free access to content data.




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