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 ...

On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

The Attorney General has struggled to define metadata and the parameters of a data retention scheme, saying web addresses would be caught in the net. Claire Reilly was a video host, journalist and ...

Mark Rix is affiliated with Amnesty International and International Commission of Jurists. Privacy and individuals’ ability to remain anonymous are important ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Abbott government has indicated its support for a controversial "data retention" regime, which would require internet and telephone ...

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 ...

Metadata gets a lot of bad press. Whenever it’s mentioned, someone is getting blistered by hidden data they negligently left in an electronic file. Metadata is actually a functional and necessary ...

Most professional photographers are familiar with the fact that their cameras embed a wealth of metadata hidden in the images they create in formats like EXIF, IPTC and XMP. This metadata typically ...