“We Kill People Based on Metadata,” Admits Former CIA/NSA Boss

New American ^ | Tuesday, 13 May 2014 11:00 | Alex Newman

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Metadata (metacontent) are defined as the data providing information about one or more aspects of the data, such as:

Means of creation of the data
Purpose of the data
Time and date of creation
Creator or author of the data
Location on a computer network where the data were created
Standards used
For example, a digital image may include metadata that describe how large the picture is, the color depth, the image resolution, when the image was created, and other data.[2] A text document's metadata may contain information about how long the document is, who the author is, when the document was written, and a short summary of the document.

Metadata are data. As such, metadata can be stored and managed in a database, often called a metadata registry or metadata repository.[3] However, without context and a point of reference, it might be impossible to identify metadata just by looking at them.[4] For example: by itself, a database containing several numbers, all 13 digits long could be the results of calculations or a list of numbers to plug into an equation - without any other context, the numbers themselves can be perceived as the data. But if given the context that this database is a log of a book collection, those 13-digit numbers may now be identified as ISBNs - information that refers to the book, but is not itself the information within the book.

In effect anything an individual uses or touches is fair game for assembling for ‘profiling ‘ purposes to make it possible to find, fix, and I predict in the not distant future eliminate troublesome Americans.