Watch That Metadata!
Leaking sensitive data from the comfort of your phone
2020-10-02 // 3 min read // #privacy
Metadata, or “data about data”, is a useful thing to have.
On the web, it’s great to have access to extra information about a webpage that browsers don’t show through <meta> tags and response headers. When we’re working with filesystems, we might care about when files were created and their access permissions just as much as we might care about their contents.
But at the same time, metadata can also be a cause for concern.