Tag: metadata
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…while some carriers have decided to press on with developing their data business since former U.S. National Security Agency contractor Edward Snowden’s disclosures, others have started pitching themselves as their customers’ best allies in seeking to hide from any prying eyes. Verizon’s Precision Marketing Insights product, which offers businesses statistics about mobile users in a…
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The results reveal just how rich a seam of information your metadata is. The participants gave up their phone’s metadata via a special app, along with publicly available information from their Facebook profile. Then, the researchers set to work, digging through it all to find out as much as they could. So, one participant in…
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If it’s near impossible for sources to contact journalists securely because of mass surveillance – while already in a climate where whistleblowers are likely to be aggressively hunted down – we may see this flow of information between source and journalist run dry. Scandals like those that have emerged over the past year will never…
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Making news content more transparent
[October 8th 2014 – Reg Chua’s concept of Structured Journalism (and posts exploring the concept) is the answer to some of my prayers below.] [Update on 22 March, 2011: Professor George Brock of City University is advocating the systematic use of footnotes by journalists to acknowledge primary source material.] [Update on 24 Feb, 2011: in a…
Sameer Padania 