METADATA IS MORE INTRUSIVE! REPEAT: METADATA IS MORE INTRUSIVE!

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49. Ironic, isn't it. For example, here you are on DU, generating income from metadata, presenting ads

at the top of the page, and on the left, and on the right. They don't know what you read on the pages you went to, they don't know if you posted or emailed the author, but they know enough to judge your interests, and then ads appear on the page based on that metadata. And DU gets a check (more likely several) because it works.

It is totally from the analysis of metadata that knows very little of what you actually did, but mostly where you connected from and to. That's just Internet traffic. Phone numbers are connected to users, or a business, and just from knowing the endpoints, time, and length of call analysis can give us information we need to market to you. Or target you.

Will it be successful all the time.No. But that is why we need big buildings with lots of computers and power to analyze vast amounts of data. And it has been so successful more capacity is being built all the time

NSA? Think Hadoop, on steroids.