02.12.2013 - 08:30 [ Guardian ]

Metadata: is it simply ‚billing data‘, or something more personal?

is it, as Australian Greens communications spokesman, Scott Ludlam, said, also on Monday, “extremely intimate material”?

Both were responding to Guardian Australia‘s news report based on a secret 2008 document showing that Australia’s intelligence agency offered to share “bulk” amounts of its citizens’ metadata with intelligence partners in the US.