The Australian Local Government Association (ALGA) has argued that councils should be able to skirt metadata laws for the purpose of pursuing a breach of the law, citing high-crime activities such as ...

Metadata from web traffic generated by smart devices installed in a home can reveal quite a lot of information about the owner's habits and lifestyle. According to research published this month by ...

Three providers of metadata in the Baltic states have merged their activities to create media-press.tv Baltic. The companies are media-press.tv A.G. (based in Zurich, Switzerland), EPGservice Baltic ...

Just how does the NSA piece together all that metadata it collects? Thanks to "newly disclosed documents and interviews with officials," The New York Times today shed light on how the agency plots out ...

CSEC might not be doing anything to worry about, but more oversight might be in order anyway On the morning after the CBC reported that the Communications Security Establishment was using airport ...

A week ago, most Canadians were unlikely to have heard of Communications Security Establishment Canada (CSEC) and its program gathering "metadata" on untold numbers of global phone calls and online ...

The Communications Security Establishment, Canada's electronic spy agency, has stopped sharing certain metadata with international partners after discovering it had not been sufficiently protecting ...