Trevor Paglen

In the very near future, I guarantee that the pictures you post on social media will affect your credit rating, health and auto insurance policies, and much more. It will all happen automatically. In a very real way, our rights and freedoms will be modulated by our metadata signatures. What's at stake, obviously, is the future of the human race!

American Artist

James Gleick

Despite the metadata attached to each tweet, and despite trails of retweets and 'favorite' tweets, the Twitter corpus lacks the latticework of hyperlinks that makes Google's algorithms so potent. Twitter's famous hashtags - #sandyhook or #fiscalcliff or #girls - are the crudest sort of signposts, not much help for smart searching.

American Author

William Binney

At least 80% of fibre-optic cables globally go via the U.S. This is no accident and allows the U.S. to view all communication coming in. At least 80% of all audio calls, not just metadata, are recorded and stored in the U.S. The NSA lies about what it stores.

American Public Servant

John McAfee

I trust and use RakEM for my private messages and calls. Other messengers collected metadata about who I messaged, when and where - RakEM does not collect metadata, encrypts local files, and uses the strongest end-to-end encryption around.

American Businessman

David Weinberger

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 the problems cannot be solved because we're not going to agree about these deep questions of how we organize.

Chris Hardwick

Steve Martin said that philosophy is good for comedy because it screws up your thinking just enough, and I agree with that. Being forced to see life's metadata is good training for looking for interesting angles on a topic.

American Comedian

Jack Dangermond

ArcGIS Online is the complete hosted GIS in the cloud, supporting mapping and apps. Additions to this component have included smart mapping, formal metadata, better administration, and high-performance geocoding.

Tom Cotton

What I believe is that a lot of the NSA's telephone metadata program is the result of misinformation spread by a traitor, Edward Snowden.

American Politician

Rand Paul

General Hayden knows full well the powerful and invasive nature of metadata.

In computing, metadata helps organize and find data, similar to a library's catalog system.

Web Understanding

Unlike content, metadata isn't always visible to users, but it works behind the scenes.

Hidden Layers

Metadata is a technical term, often used by IT professionals and web developers.

Technical Term

Photography metadata is packed with details that tell more about the picture's background.

Detail Rich

Metadata in photography helps categorize images, making them easier to sort and find.

Essential Organizer

Photo metadata can serve as legal evidence because it shows when and where a photo was taken.

Legal Evidence

Music metadata lets you identify songs and artists quickly, especially in large collections.

Music Identification

Metadata in music files keep track of the song's history, like a digital record.

Preserves History

Metadata allows users to access information about music without playing the files.

Quick Access

 And while I walk outside, I'll just mention that here we're using this for telepresence, but you can equally well use this on the spot, for augmented reality. When you use it on the spot, it means that you're able to bring all of that metadata and information about the world to you. So here, we're taking the extra step of also broadcasting it.

Blaise Aguera y Arcas...

 and maybe you could tell the audience what that was that was revealed. The best way to understand PRISM, because there's been a little bit of controversy, is to first talk about what PRISM isn't. Much of the debate in the U.S. has been about metadata. They've said it's just metadata, it's just metadata,

How we take back the...

 into a really nice format now he's got the data plus we have metadata we have information about things like where was it published who's the author when was it published and what we do is go through all of those records and exclude everything that's not the highest quality data what we're left with is a

What we learned from 5...

 The question I get most frequently How do you make something go viral? The question itself is misplaced; it's not about the something. It's about what the people doing the something, reading or watching -- what are they thinking? Now, most media companies, when they think about metadata,

What makes something go...

 creating the first digital representation, comprehensive, of the entire world. What we want to do is mix in all types of data. Tag it. Attribute it. Metadata. Get the community to add local depth, global perspective, local knowledge. So when you think about this problem,

Stephen Lawler: Look! Up...

 life data which is data from living things that can help us translate nature so that we can get new perspectives and commissioned by the open data institute in the space I've been I've created a new work called we need us which explores metadata which is data about

Data: Art that informs PIPE...

 But I think the truth is the exact opposite. I think citizens of high-tech societies are more vulnerable to robotic weapons, and the reason can be summed up in one data. Data powers high-tech societies. Cell phone geolocation, telecom metadata,

Daniel Suarez: The kill...

 You film road signs, you film watches, you film newspapers. We are checking maps, looking at maps, double-checking the information, and looking also at the metadata of the material. Now, the fourth and the most important thing I learned

Hidden Cameras Film...

 is associated with counterterrorist or proliferation or other foreign intelligence target. Much has been made of the fact that a lot of the information that you've obtained through these programs is essentially metadata.

Richard Ledgett: The NSA...

 that marries those metadata together with your image, and it validates and it verifies your video. Now, imagine there is a deluge of images coming from the world's camera phones.