{"id":5243,"date":"2013-07-05T06:58:36","date_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:58:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5243"},"modified":"2013-07-05T06:58:36","modified_gmt":"2013-07-05T12:58:36","slug":"me-and-my-metadata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5243","title":{"rendered":"Me and My Metadata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ethanzuckerman.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/me-and-my-metadata-thoughts-on-online-surveillance\/\">Ethan Zuckerman<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The NSA documents Edward Snowden leaked have sparked a debate within the US about surveillance. While Americans understood that the US government was likely intercepting telephone and social media data from terrorism suspects, it\u2019s been an uncomfortable discovery that the US collected massive sets of email and telephone data from Americans and non-Americans who aren\u2019t suspected of any crimes. These revelations add context to other discoveries of surveillance in post 9-11 America, including the Mail Isolation Control and Tracking program, which scans the outside of all paper mail sent in the US and stores it for later analysis. (The Smoking Gun reported on the program early last month \u2013 I hadn\u2019t heard of it until the Times report today.)<\/p>\n<p>The Obama administration and supporters have responded to criticism of these programs by assuring Americans that the information collected is \u201cmetadata\u201d, information on who is talking to whom, not the substance of conversations. As Senator Dianne Feinstein put it, \u201cThis is just metadata. There is no content involved.\u201d By analyzing the metadata, officials claim, they can identify potential suspects then seek judicial permission to access the content directly. Nothing to worry about. You\u2019re not being spied on by your government \u2013 they\u2019re just monitoring the metadata.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ethan Zuckerman: The NSA documents Edward Snowden leaked have sparked a debate within the US about surveillance. While Americans understood that the US government was likely intercepting telephone and social media data from terrorism suspects, it\u2019s been an uncomfortable discovery that the US collected massive sets of email and telephone data from Americans and non-Americans [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5243\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}