MIT NSA Email Metadata System

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Think Metadata is no big deal? Try MIT's Gmail Metadata System Immersion for a true picture of the minimum that the NSA, DHS, and others can deduce just from your email metadata alone.

Link:
https://immersion.media.mit.edu

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Add: Remember they'll branch down several levels through your contacts contacts. And although Immersion uses gmail for access it's not the case for prism. Meaning any email's metadata over the Internet can captured, no back door required.

[Trapper John]

Very interesting and thanks for this post!

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Very interesting and thanks for this post!

Pleasure, knowledge is good.

[Richard]

This MIT Website Tracks Your Digital Footprint Through Gmail

http://newsfeed.time.com/2013/07/05/this-mit-website-tracks-your-digital-footprint-through-gmail/#ixzz2YwjQ01wr

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Scientific American has a more detailed simple take...

http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/symbiartic/2013/07/09/what-the-n-s-a-knows-about-you/

Just like the U.S Postal Service photographing (digitizing and storing) the outside of every letter and package, email headers are Text based and have sender, addressees, and routing info.

Add: There was software developed like Immersion sold to the gov ten years ago, replacing most analysts that used the roll of paper. One would reasonably expect it is more advanced as well as linked with all data sources available. Traditional Americans should expect data collection such as this to require a specific warrant.

The facts are what they are, not what we wish them to be.