“Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody’s life, if you have enough metadata you don’t really need content…. [It’s] sort of embarrassing how predictable we are as human beings.”

Quoted in: Alan Rusbridger " The Snowden Leaks and the Public http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2013/nov/21/snowden-leaks-and-public/" at nybooks.com, November 21, 2013.

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