Privacy Lesson: Metadata Basics

What is metadata and how can it be used to uniquely identify users online (across accounts, machines, networks, authors)? Even if using a VPN, or Tor router: if you choose "bad programs" (with excess or plaintext metadata) this can be used to uniquely identify. For max online safety, choose programs with low metadata retention and opt for protocols with some type of obfuscation/encryption. See more detailed usage of metadata, including metadata minimizing messenger recommendations on my latest public post: https://www.buymeacoffee.com/politictech/metadata-introduction-solutions Privacy is not about having something to hide- privacy is about being smart in an age where data brokers help run election campaigns. Privacy is about respect and protecting yourself online from the unknowns. WiPri: script I wrote to protect our Human Right to privacy from local/remote tracking with multiple unique options including: changes to mac address (multiple types changes), signal strength, hostna