METADATA torrent

Author: Jeffrey Pomerantz
Publication Date: November 6, 2015
Publisher: The MIT Press
ISBN-10: 0262528517
ISBN-13: 978-0262528511
Pages: 256 pages
Format: pdf
Size: 11M

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When "metadata" became breaking news, appearing in stories about surveillance by the National Security Agency, many members of the public encountered this once-obscure term from information science for the first time. Should people be reassured that the NSA was "only" collecting metadata about phone calls -- information about the caller, the recipient, the time, the duration, the location -- and not recordings of the conversations themselves? Or does phone call metadata reveal more than it seems? In this book, Jeffrey Pomerantz offers an accessible and concise introduction to metadata.

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