metadata
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What Is EXIF Data, and How to Remove It From Your Photos
Every time you take a photo with a digital camera or smartphone, your device adds extra information to the image file — metadata about the image that’s stored within the image itself. This EXIF data, as it’s known, is short for “Exchangeable Image File Format,” and it includes the date, time, and geographic location of…
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Why The Police’s Metadata Screw Up Changes Everything
Late last week, the commissioner of the Australian Federal Police revealed that an officer has accessed the personal metadata of an Australian journalist as part of an investigation into that reporter’s sources for a story about the AFP. While Commissioner Colvin put it down to “human error” there is far more to this. What we…
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Telstra Just Won An Important Case About Your Metadata
A long-running case on whether you’re allowed access to view your own mobile phone metadata — retained by Australia’s telecommunications companies for government snooping, including comprehensive call logs and location data — and whether that data is classified as “personal information” has come to an unceremonious end.
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Australian ISPs Will Get $131 Million To Help Fund Metadata Retention
One of the big question marks over the controversial “metadata retention” legislation requiring ISPs to keep detailed records of what Australians do online was how much money the government would cough up to help deal with the increased costs the plan would create. Now we have an official figure: $131 million.
