Since November 2013, researchers at Stanford University have been asking: What’s in your metadata? Specifically, the study encouraged volunteers who also used Facebook to install an app called ...

Keeping metadata accurate and consistent is one of the major challenges of publishing and maintaining a substantial music catalog. Here we look at common metatda issues in classical music, hip hop, ...

PBS is spearheading efforts to help stations reach more viewers by improving their metadata, an area in which the system is lagging behind the commercial media juggernauts. Metadata, which is data ...

After Edward Snowden leaked data in 2013 that revealed the National Security Agency is, and has been, spying on the American public through mass metadata collection, there was outrage — but there wasn ...

Contrary to the claims of America’s top spies, the details of your phone calls and text messages—including when they took place and whom they involved—are no less revealing than the actual contents of ...

Telephone metadata surveillance likely reveals a lot more information about people and ensnares more Americans than spy agencies and the Obama administration have let on, a new study finds. In fact, ...

Shopping habits can expose a person’s identity even when he or she is a nameless customer in a database of anonymous credit-card records, according to a study that shows the power of so-called ...