{"id":9025,"date":"2013-07-07T12:15:19","date_gmt":"2013-07-07T12:15:19","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2013-07-07T12:15:19","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9025","title":{"rendered":"NYT Bits: Using E-Mail Data to Connect the Dots of Your Life"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NYT Bits: <a href=\"http:\/\/bits.blogs.nytimes.com\/2013\/07\/05\/using-e-mail-data-to-connect-the-dots-of-your-life\/\">Using E-Mail Data to Connect the Dots of Your Life<\/a> by Brian X. Chen, halfway in:<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>But what is e-mail metadata anyway? It\u2019s information about the people you\u2019re sending e-mails to and receiving e-mails from, and the times that the messages were sent \u2014 as opposed to the contents of the messages. It\u2019s the digital equivalent of a postal service worker looking at your mail envelope instead of opening it up and reading what\u2019s inside.<\/p>\n<p>That sounds harmless, but it turns out your e-mail metadata can be used to connect the dots of your life story. I learned this from participating in Immersion, a project by M.I.T.\u2019s Media Laboratory, earlier reported by my colleague Juliet Lapidos. Immersion is a tool that mines your e-mail metadata and automatically stitches it all together into an interactive graphic. The result is a creepy spider web showing all the people you\u2019ve corresponded with, how they know each other, and who your closest friends and professional partners are.<\/p>\n<p>After entering my Google mail credentials, Immersion took five minutes to stitch together metadata from e-mails going back eight years. A quick glimpse at my results gives an accurate description of my life.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=9025\">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-9025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9025"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9025\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9025"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9025"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9025"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}