Study shows detailed, compromising inferences can be readily made with metadata
by Cory Doctorow from on (#1F7ZT)
In Evaluating the privacy properties of telephone metadata, a paper by researchers from Stanford's departments of Law and Computer Science published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, the authors analyzed metadata from six months' worth of volunteers' phone logs to see what kind of compromising information they could extract from them. (more")