While there is no set definition of metadata that telecommunications will be required to retain under legislation due to be introduced in the current sitting of the Australian parliament, the ...

Metadata seems to be talked about a lot more now. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, mentioned it five times since 2018 on earnings calls. In 2024's call, he called it out 26 times. So what is the ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Abbott government has indicated its support for a controversial "data retention" regime, which would require internet and telephone ...

The security agencies that will most use stored telecommunications data under new legislation before the Australian parliament will not reveal exactly what data they want retained until negotiations ...

On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

Finally, we know what metadata is, or perhaps more precisely, how the Government is choosing to define it as part of its controversial Data Retention Bill. If the legislation passes the Senate, it ...

Most attorneys know that metadata is "data about data." But there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which every practitioner should be aware. Even the most techno-phobic ...

Add articles to your saved list and come back to them any time. The Abbott government has attempted to put an end to the heated debate over the proposed data retention regime by promising to spell out ...

After Communications Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s appearance on AM this morning, there’s now a fifth definition of metadata in just four days from the government. But, at last, we might actually have ...