When the NSA’s bulk collection of every single American’s phone records was disclosed this past summer, defenders of the program argued it was not invasive surveillance because it’s only metadata (who you called, when, and for how long) and doesn’t include the identity of the callers or the content of the conversation. “There are no names, there’s
Stanford Study: It Is Trivially Easy to Identify People With Metadata
Before Edward Snowden, NSA overreach was unknown. Now, collecting metadata can be more revealing than listening in to the content of phone calls.