US admits killing people on the basis of their Metadata
The US government has admitted that it arranges drone strikes and assassinations based on a person's metadata.
According to the New York Review of Books, the National Security Agency claims that its sweeping collection of phone and Internet records is nothing to worry about because it is only "metadata" are bogus.
NSA General Counsel Stewart Baker has said: "Metadata absolutely tells you everything about somebody's life. If you have enough metadata, you don't really need content." Now General Michael Hayden, former director of the NSA and the CIA, has called Baker's comment "absolutely correct" and raised him one, asserting, "We kill people based on metadata".
