SWWay-Privacy: Secure Your Metadata
Yes, Metadata is all the file data we think about - date created, modified, name, time, etc., But Metadata about communications is often ignored by people in understanding their own security. But get this:
“Historically, metadata has had less privacy protection under the law in some countries—including the U.S.—than the contents of communications. The police in many countries can obtain the records of who you called last month more easily than they can arrange a wiretap of your phone line to hear what you’re actually saying. Or, a government agency could purchase metadata without needing to clear the sorts of technical or legal hurdles that might be required to read content.”
It includes:
The subject line of your emails
The length of your conversations
The time frame in which a conversation took place
Your location when communicating (as well as with whom)
