Two Infographics Paint a Picture of Your Online Privacy

Thanks to Edward Snowden, users now know that the National Security Agency collects all of their Internet garbage, or metadata. But how much data does that entail, and what does metadata reveal about us? Two infographics begin to sketch it out.

Thanks to Edward Snowden, users now know that the U.S. National Security Agency collects all of their Internet and cell phone metadata. But how much data does that entail, and what does metadata reveal about us? Two infographics begin to sketch it out.

A demo put together by MIT gives a snapshot of what surveillance could pull out of a Gmail account using only metadata. Users who run the tool (which works only in Chrome) through their Gmail accounts will see that metadata can quickly reveal who they chat most with and which people are connected to one another in their network of contacts.

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