A new paper published Monday by the New America Foundation demonstrably destroys the US government claim that bulk metadata collection is useful. (Three US senators made the same claim back in ...

An organization of database and data warehouse vendors founded in 1995. Within a year, it introduced the Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS) as a standard for defining metadata. It also ...

A White House-appointed review board has recommended a wholesale restructuring of the National Security Agency’s phone data gathering program, just days after a federal judge said the program likely ...

Last summer, the United States was rocked by the first revelation to come from whistleblower Edward Snowden: Verizon (and likely other companies) routinely hands over millions of records on Americans’ ...

The Book Industry Study Group has published Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata, a report on how publishers, retailers and other vendors in the digital supply chain create and ...

Apple last week faced renewed scrutiny for its data-sharing practices, following a report that it retains iMessage metadata and shares it with law enforcement when presented with a court order. The ...

The US National Security Agency (NSA) reportedly stores metadata on millions of web users without their consent and regardless of whether they are a person of interest, new leaked documents show. The ...