Report and Recommendations of The President’s Review Group on Intelligence and Communications Technologies

­December 2013

As we have seen, however, that assumption [collection of metadata does not seriously invade individual privacy, as it is meaningfully different from other information (content)] is questionable. In a world of ever more complex technology, it is increasingly unclear whether the distinction between ‘meta­data’ and other information carries much weight.120

• 120. See International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance, 10 July 2013, available at http://en.necessaryandproportionate.org/text.