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How Much Meta Data Does Your Country Collect?

A lot of people may wonder what meta data is, and why it even matters governments throughout the world care so much for collecting it. Let’s take a look at what meta data is all about, how different countries in the world collect it, the amount they collect, and...

Australia's new Metadata Policy and Encryption

Australian government officials have now passed a new metadata retention scheme that gives law enforcement agencies complete access to user text messages, emails, and metadata. Strangely enough, even though only 40% of the Australian population supported the law it still passed. 44% did not support metadata retention, and 16%–(understandably...