Metadata

The government immensely overstepped its legal boundary to set up the Prism program in the year 2001. The citizens of the United States were not made aware about the program and the only time any public statement was made about it was by Edward Snowden an ex – CIA system analyst in 2013. So, it was 12 years after that we came to know about the program and the NSA was illegally collecting our personal data. Since the public was not made aware of it, there was an outrage when the citizens of…

Resolved: The United States federal government should substantially curtail its domestic surveillance. Plan: The government will curtail its surveillance by only viewing collected data by means of a warrant. Intro-After the NSA reported their first transparency avowal, the publisher Omicron Technology Limited stated, “The report said 19,212 "national security letters"—administrative subpoenas that allow the FBI to collect information without a warrant—were issued last year, containing…

Concrete evidence floats to the surface; a hope emerges from cloud of despair. Yet, the evidence is meaningless and hope gets electrocuted by the ionic discharge from clouds. Edward Snowden leaked information about the mass surveillance by NSA on 2013. Two years later the surveillance still continues and Snowden is a refugee in Russia. Billions of emails, messages, searches ,VOIP etc still get scrutinized by NSA today. Every Second NSA selects 100 Gigabyte of data for review. “If you want to…

essentially did not contain any raw data itself, but instead had a series of cards organized alphabetically so that each card pointed the user to a book that might contain the information for which he or she was searching. Much more common today are the metadata in Web sites that encode data so that the user can identify and retrieve desired information. (Bowles 2010).…

colossal importance—to arouse international discussion and raise people’s awareness. This film is not aiming in introducing any political view, but to show us the undue extent of surveillance from the governments over residents, through collecting metadata from daily activity on any digital device, hence the way they infringe our deserved privacy, ultimately encourage all of us to be aware instead of living in ignorance. Surveillance is not only about being watched, it also implicates the…

Privacy and Protection In George Orwell’s 1984, Big Brother exploits surveillance to spy on everything from people’s daily actions to the thoughts in their mind’s privacy (Orwell). This book has left a horrifying image to its readers with the idea of the invasion of privacy through manipulation and misuse of surveillance. As extreme as that sounds, this could be the near future of Americans if surveillance continues to grow. Due to the disclosures of Edward Snowden on the flaws of surveillance,…

Privacy is a concern for most people living in America. Although it is not explicitly stated in the Constitution, the right to privacy is acknowledged through several amendments such as the First Amendment (which protects the privacy of religion and speech) and the Fourth Amendment (which protects the privacy of people from unreasonable searches). The current shift to the digital age has forced people to watch their digital footprints in order to protect themselves from prying eyes. With the…

private person. Single content often proves to have little information and it can be difficult to sort out banalities, but given the amount of content the average active social media user generates [citation needed?] these can be used to gather further metadata. Although audio and video data present…

Once early radio legislation, such as the Radio Act of 1912, determined that radio would be a commercial system, the primary question facing the industry was: how will radio be funded? This was resolved by the introduction of advertising to the airwaves, which set a number of precedents upon which modern media, principally, television and the internet, receive funding create their programming. As expressed by Michele Hilmes in her work Only Connect: A Cultural History of Broadcasting in the…

produces consolidated, GAAP, full financial statements in driver-based fashion, allowing for different capital planning scenarios to be vetted by senior leadership. Being able to work with data, bringing in multiple sources, and standardizing the metadata surrounding the data is what made a companywide model such a challenging task. Due to the quality of data in this model numerous individuals will now use my model as their source to tie their reports too. As the administrator of the…