This MIT Website Tracks Your Digital Footprint Through Gmail While the world is still trying to figure out how much the NSA is spying on them, this MIT website offers a glimpse at the personal data email users reveal online every day Metadata is a word that was once reserved for the halls of high-tech companies and academia. But since the revelation of mass surveillance programs by the National Security Agency (NSA) — which collect troves of big-picture data on American citizens — the concept of data about data has entered the public lexicon. Now, the techies over at MIT’s Media Lab are giving us a glimpse at our own metadata, giving us a cold, hard look at the bread crumbs of personal data we freely scatter across the Web.
Posted on: Sat, 13 Jul 2013 04:32:56 +0000
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