{"id":5391,"date":"2013-09-23T06:34:13","date_gmt":"2013-09-23T12:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5391"},"modified":"2013-09-23T06:34:13","modified_gmt":"2013-09-23T12:34:13","slug":"metadata-equals-surveillance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/?p=5391","title":{"rendered":"Metadata Equals Surveillance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><A href=\"https:\/\/www.schneier.com\/blog\/archives\/2013\/09\/metadata_equals.html\">Bruce Schneier<\/a>: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden&#8217;s cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people &#8212; including President Obama &#8212; discounted the seriousness of the NSA&#8217;s actions by saying that it&#8217;s just metadata.<\/p>\n<p>Lots and lots of people effectively demolished that trivialization, but the arguments are generally subtle and hard to convey quickly and simply. I have a more compact argument: metadata equals surveillance.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bruce Schneier: Back in June, when the contents of Edward Snowden&#8217;s cache of NSA documents were just starting to be revealed and we learned about the NSA collecting phone metadata of every American, many people &#8212; including President Obama &#8212; discounted the seriousness of the NSA&#8217;s actions by saying that it&#8217;s just metadata. Lots and [&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\/5391"}],"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=5391"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5391\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.zmetro.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}