{"id":10534,"date":"2014-03-13T22:24:00","date_gmt":"2014-03-14T00:02:23","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2014-03-13T22:24:00","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10534","title":{"rendered":"eff.org: Top Technologists File Brief Supporting ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA Spying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>eff.org: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eff.org\/press\/releases\/top-technologists-file-brief-supporting-aclu-lawsuit-against-nsa-spying\">Top Technologists File Brief Supporting ACLU Lawsuit Against NSA Spying<\/a><\/p>\n<p>EFF Represents Computer Scientists in Explaining Why \u201cIt Is Not Just Metadata\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>San Francisco &#8211; Representing a large group of top computer science experts and professors, the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) today submitted a brief to a federal appeals court supporting the American Civil Liberties Union&#8217;s lawsuit over the NSA&#8217;s mass call records collection program. At the core of the brief is the argument that metadata matters.<\/p>\n<p>Intelligence officials have often downplayed privacy concerns over the NSA&#8217;s interpretation of Section 215 of the Patriot Act by stating that the agency does not collect the &#8220;content&#8221; of calls, but only the metadata\u2014who a person called, when, how long the conversation lasted and other information. EFF&#8217;s brief begins with the line &#8220;It is not just metadata,&#8221; and goes on to explain how metadata collected on a massive scale can often reveal more personal information about an individual than content. The brief outlines how metadata can show patterns of behavior, political and religious affiliations, and other personal details, especially when combined with other data sources.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=10534\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}