We are all going to have to get used to the word metadata. Explaining what it means in simple terms is quite tricky, for it is a genuinely abstract concept. (And let me warn the purists up front that ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. Monday marks 688 days since I first asked Telstra for the metadata generated by my mobile phone - the same information it routinely ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. I'm in a non-descript building in Sydney's central business district. In a hearing room inside are 13 people. Five work for Telstra, six ...

One of the most disingenuous arguments in the aftermath of the NSA spying revelations is that the American people shouldn't be concerned about the government hoovering up its sensitive information ...

In January 2014, documents provided by Edward Snowden showed that a Canadian spy agency used a unique identifier to follow thousands of Canadians as they moved about the country. The tracking all ...

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 — ...

Before the advent of digital photography, adding information about photographs was easy: You simply wrote in the margins or on the back of a snapshot. Turn it over and there was the information: ...

Photos for OS X made a big impact—some might say a crater. While the software has huge improvements in speed, it comes with a lot of changes, some bumps in get started, and a few bugs. In last week’s ...

Struggling with MCP authentication? The November 2025 spec just changed everything. CIMD replaces DCR's complexity with a simple URL-based approach—no registration endpoints, no client ID sprawl, ...