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New app attempts to figure out what your phone is telling the NSA

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The project, known as MetaPhone, works like this: The researchers are asking willing participants to install an app on their Android phones that will transmit basic metadata from their telephone. The researchers will try to deduce as much information as possible from that data, presumably in the same fashion as the NSA.

 

In order to find out whether their deductions are accurate, the team is also asking participants to provide basic information from their Facebook pages.

“Our hypothesis is that phone metadata is packed with meaning,” Mayer said.

 

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http://www.dailydot.com/politics/metaphone-app-nsa-metadata/

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