The security agencies that will most use stored telecommunications data under new legislation before the Australian parliament will not reveal exactly what data they want retained until negotiations ...

The man charged with developing Australia’s new data retention policy has been caught out struggling to identify what online data the Government is seeking to retain. After confirming he was the man ...

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The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

Most attorneys know that metadata is "data about data." But there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which every practitioner should be aware. Even the most techno-phobic ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

Finally, we know what metadata is, or perhaps more precisely, how the Government is choosing to define it as part of its controversial Data Retention Bill. If the legislation passes the Senate, it ...

The report of parliament's Joint Committee on Intelligence and Security follows an inquiry into the laws, which would mean Australians' data would be held for two years by telecos. While the ...

After Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appearance on AM this morning, there’s now a fifth definition of metadata in just four days from the government. But, at last, we might actually have ...

What is Dublin Core (DC)? Dublin Core is an international metadata standard formally known as the Dublin Core Metadata Element Set and includes 15 metadata (data that describes data) terms. These ...