Wired: Twitter’s vast metadata haul is a privacy nightmare for users. “Metadata is everywhere. Everything you tweet, every picture you take, and every status update you post on Facebook. It’s used by police and security forces to identify people who try to hide their identities and locations, while associated metadata in selfies can inadvertently ensnare criminals unaware that the data can destroy their alibi. And metadata on Twitter can also be used in extremely precise identification each and every one of us – according to a new paper by researchers at University College London and the Alan Turing Institute.”
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Stanford Library: Stanford Libraries awarded $4 Million grant to implement linked data metadata environment
Stanford Libraries: Stanford Libraries awarded $4 Million grant to implement linked data metadata environment. “A proposal to dramatically shift how libraries create metadata and greatly improve how users discover library holdings has been accepted and awarded to Stanford Libraries by The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. In partnership with the libraries of Cornell, Harvard and the University of Iowa, Stanford will lead the effort to integrate library data into the Web, in a semantic way, so it can be discovered intelligently in Web searches as well as in a library’s catalogue.”
Research Clutter: A New App Helps Create Order out of Disorder (American Historical Association)
American Historical Association: Research Clutter: A New App Helps Create Order out of Disorder. “Tropy is a free, open-source desktop application designed to help researchers organize and describe the photos they take in archives in intuitive and useful ways. It allows users to group photos of research materials, annotate images, add metadata, export to other applications, and easily search their collections.”
Google Blog: Get more useful information with captions on Google Images
Google Blog: Get more useful information with captions on Google Images. “People around the world use Google Images to find visual information online. Whether you’re searching for ideas for your next baking project, how to tie shoelaces so they stay put, or tips on the proper form for doing a plank, scanning image results can be much more helpful than scanning text. Today, we’re sharing more about new changes to Google Images to provide even better visual discovery with more context on the image results page.”
Search Engine Land: Google drops support for meta news keywords tag
Search Engine Land: Google drops support for meta news keywords tag. “Google has dropped its support for the news meta keywords tag. Google introduced the new meta keywords tag specifically for news publishers back in 2012 and quietly stopped supporting it months ago.”
The Register: Roses are red, Facebook is blue. Think private means private? More fool you
The Register: Roses are red, Facebook is blue. Think private means private? More fool you. “Privacy settings on Facebook do not protect users from handing over photos, posts or metadata that is relevant to a court case, a New York judge has ruled. In a decision (PDF) handed down yesterday, chief judge Janet DiFiore said that a court could ask someone to hand over any relevant materials as part of discovery ahead of a trial – even if they are private.”
Techradar: Seen an amazing photo online? Vivaldi shows you its metadata with two clicks
Techradar: Seen an amazing photo online? Vivaldi shows you its metadata with two clicks. “Ever seen an incredible picture online and wondered what type of camera it was taken with, what exposure and focal length settings the photographer used, or where and when it was taken? The latest version of super-customizable web browser Vivaldi puts all that information at your fingertips.”
