[lbo-talk] Why Metadata Matters

[Eleutherios]

Although I challenged the claims that government surveillance doesn't
matter or that metadata is unimportant/unrevealing, Wojtek's point about
corporate data mining being pernicious is very much a valid one and one
that is far too undercovered and underappreciated --including by those
like Glenn Greenwald. Executive director of the NLG, Heidi Boghosian
https://twitter.com/HeidiBoghosian , is on Moyers this week and there
was at least some discussion of data in business' hands (where NSA and
other government agencies gather most of their information via
agreements or surreptitiously):
http://billmoyers.com/episode/full-show-how-dollarocracy-is-destroying-america/
.