Big deal Quote by Rand Paul

Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.

— Bruce Schneier

If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's not that we're not good at it; it's…

— David Weinberger

“For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber caliphate, Muslim brotherhood, Antifa etc), metadata is "THE" silent weapon in…

— James Scott, co-founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“concluded that the metadata program “was not essential to preventing attacks and could readily have been obtained in a timely manner using conventional [court]…

— Glenn Greenwald

Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.

— David Weinberger

“there is no check or limit on the NSA’s bulk collection of metadata, thanks to the government’s interpretation of the Patriot Act—an interpretation so…

— Glenn Greenwald

Our phones contain so much information: our messages, emails, contacts, photos and social media posts - including private, sensitive, personal, historic and sometimes even…

— Lindsay Hoyle

We have our phones right by our beds, right next to us in our most exposed, vulnerable moments. And yet the government could have…

— Maggie Gyllenhaal

Despite being in public life, I value my own privacy immensely and would be as concerned as anyone else if I thought my mobile…

— David Blunkett

Our phones don't just keep us in touch with the world; they're also diaries, confessional booths, repositories for our deepest secrets.

— Jenna Wortham

If you think of data as kind of an x-ray of our soul, it's this window into our minds that the company has possessed.…

— Franklin Foer

I think the American public can accept the fact if you tell them that every time you pick up the phone it's going to…

— Raymond Kelly