Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Abbott government has indicated its support for a controversial "data retention" regime, which would require internet and telephone ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

Even the most techno-phobic attorney likely could recite the often-used definition of metadata: “data about data.” However, there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which ...

Data generated when you do anything online or with your phone. It's not the content of conversations, it's the digital footprint like numbers and times left behind. What is the government doing? They ...

Metadata isn't like the regular data we know – but the key differences between the two can be hard to figure out. To put it simply, though, metadata is often referred to as data that sorts and ...

On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. In my career I have witnessed the challenge of fighting crime while attempting to balance individual privacy with what can be deemed a ...

The security agencies that will most use stored telecommunications data under new legislation before the Australian parliament will not reveal exactly what data they want retained until negotiations ...

As technology continues to advance, so do the ways we connect and manage memory and devices in our computing systems. The latest version of Compute Express Link (CXL) 3.1 introduces a feature known as ...