Best Metadata Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Exfiltrated metadata from internet service providers and social media platforms can be plugged into big data analytics and once the right algorithm is applied, can allow an adversary surgically precise psychographic targeting of critical infrastructure executives with elevated privileges. Why is no one talking about this?”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“You can keep the Office of Personnel Management records, I don't need Electronic Health Records, give me the metadata, big data analytics and a custom tailored algorithm and a budget and during election time, I can cut to the psychological core of any population, period!”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Dragnet surveillance capitalists such as Facebook, Comcast, AT&T and Google, unfortunately, supply these manipulating forces with an endless supply of metadata for this information war against the American and European public.”

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Author:James Scott, Senior Fellow, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“For Nation States, and the adversaries within America's boarders (special interest groups, cyber caliphate, Muslim brotherhood, Antifa etc), metadata is "THE" silent weapon in this quiet information war.”

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Author:James Scott, Co-Founder, Institute for Critical Infrastructure Technology

“Most people, even today, tend to think of mass surveillance in terms of content - the actual words they use when they make a phone call or write an email. The unfortunate truth, however, is that the content of our communications is rarely as revealing as its other elements - the unwritten, unspoken information that can expose the broader context and patterns of behavior.”

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Book:Permanent Record

Source: Permanent Record

“Based on his experience, he has come to believe that the drone program amounts to little more than death by unreliable metadata. "People get hung up that there's a targeted list of people," he said. "It's really like we're targeting a cell phone. We're not going after people – we're going after their phones, in the hopes that the person on the other end of that missile is the bad guy.”

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Book:The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

Source: The Assassination Complex: Inside the Government's Secret Drone Warfare Program

“Any system is only as good as the metadata that it ingests.”

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Author:Chris Bulock

“Metadata liberates us, liberates knowledge.”

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Author:David Weinberger

“Any time someone tries to tell you that metadata is 'meaningless, don't worry, it's just who you call, it's just phone records, it's not a big deal' - realize we kill people based on metadata. So they must be pretty darn certain that they think they know something based on metadata.”

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Author:Rand Paul

“Metadata equals surveillance; it's that simple.”

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Author:Bruce Schneier

“What the USA Freedom Act did is it did two things. Number one, it ended the federal government's bulk collection of phone metadata of millions of law-abiding citizens.”

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Author:Ted Cruz

“ISIS is the most sophisticated terror threat we have ever faced. We are now at a time when we need more tools, not less tools. And that took we lost, the metadata program, was a valuable tool that we no longer have at our disposal.”

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Author:Marco Rubio

“We have a lot of argument about laws but none of it solves the problem. Let's examine what happened, why did we miss the Tsarnaev brothers, why did we miss the San Bernardino couple? It wasn't because we had stopped collected metadata it was because, I think, as someone who comes from the technology world, we were using the wrong algorithms.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“When we miss with all the metadata collection we've had, the San Bernardino couple and the Tsarnaev brothers, what that suggests to me is that we are using the wrong algorithms to search through all this data.”

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Author:Carly Fiorina

“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.”

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Author:Chris Hardwick

“To a collector of curios, the dust is metadata.”

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Book:Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder

Source: Everything Is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder