Metadata is best described as "data within data that describes data". It contains information about the data itself such as who posted the data (and who its recipients are, if applicable), the size of the data, and the time the data was created or sent.
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Therefore, if the surveillance entities cannot understand the data itself due to encryption, they will be able to tell a lot about it when other facts about their targets are combined together using their very powerful supercomputers.
Those supercomputers are bought using money earned from illegally processing, distributing, and selling their users' private information. The cycle repeats, where they gather more private information and use them to earn more money for new supercomputers.
Ah, got it @anonymouser thank you.
I am going to miss you.
I actually felt some sort of friendship brewing . . there was always the distance since you are anonymous, but I've appreciated knowing you throughout your time here 🤗
You might find somebody like me here on Hive (or somewhere else). I hope you find someone better than me here that can openly tell the truth about governmental and corporate misdeeds (about privacy violations or otherwise) without trying to be anonymous at all.