TY - GEN
T1 - Me, My Metadata, and the NSA
T2 - Privacy and Government Metadata Surveillance Programs
AU - Newell, B.C.
AU - Tennis, Joseph T.
PY - 2014
Y1 - 2014
N2 - After Edward Snowden leaked classified intelligence records to the press in June 2013, government metadata surveillance programs–and the risk that large-scale metadata collection poses to personal information privacy–has taken center stage in domestic and international debates about privacy and the appropriate role of government. In this paper, the authors approach these questions by drawing upon theory and literature in both law and archival studies. This paper concludes that, because metadata surveillance can be highly intrusive to personal privacy–even more revealing in certain regards than the contents of our communications in some cases–and that certain types of metadata are inextricably linked with the records of our digitally mediated lives, legal distinctions that draw a line between communications “content” and metadata are inappropriate and insufficient to adequately protect personal privacy.
AB - After Edward Snowden leaked classified intelligence records to the press in June 2013, government metadata surveillance programs–and the risk that large-scale metadata collection poses to personal information privacy–has taken center stage in domestic and international debates about privacy and the appropriate role of government. In this paper, the authors approach these questions by drawing upon theory and literature in both law and archival studies. This paper concludes that, because metadata surveillance can be highly intrusive to personal privacy–even more revealing in certain regards than the contents of our communications in some cases–and that certain types of metadata are inextricably linked with the records of our digitally mediated lives, legal distinctions that draw a line between communications “content” and metadata are inappropriate and insufficient to adequately protect personal privacy.
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.9776/14109
U2 - 10.9776/14109
DO - 10.9776/14109
M3 - Conference contribution
T3 - iConference 2014 Proceedings
SP - 345
EP - 355
BT - iConference 2014 Proceedings
ER -