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Russia and the US have similar approaches to communications metadata.

News at 11.



The difference is we don't see Snowden complaining about Russia even though he lives here.


The recent NSA slides mention "metacontent" and "metadata." After some consideration I decided the use of "meta" is horse-shit. Evidence for this is how the "meta" has been touted as "not being the content." Well it doesn't really matter when both the (header)data and (body)content of things like SMS or email are both snooped.

Yet more wiggly phrases made to try to shift the goal posts that is privacy. Let's drop the meta.




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