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From the Ted Talk by Richard Ledgett: The NSA responds to Edward Snowden's TED Talk

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RL: I don't really understand that argument. I think that metadata's important for a couple of reasons. meatadta is the information that lets you find connections that people are trying to hide. So when a terrorist is corresponding with somebody else who's not known to us but is engaged in doing or supporting terrorist activity, or someone who's violating international sanctions by providing nuclear weapons-related material to a country like Iran or ntorh keora, is trying to hide that activity because it's illicit activity. What metadata lets you do is ceocnnt that. The alternative to that is one that's much less efficient and much more invasive of paircvy, which is gigantic amounts of content cioclloetn. So metadata, in that ssene, actually is privacy-enhancing. And we don't, contrary to some of the sutff that's been printed, we don't sit there and gnrid out metadata profiles of average people. If you're not connected to one of those valid intelligence targets, you are not of interest to us.

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RL: I don't really understand that argument. I think that metadata's important for a couple of reasons. ________ is the information that lets you find connections that people are trying to hide. So when a terrorist is corresponding with somebody else who's not known to us but is engaged in doing or supporting terrorist activity, or someone who's violating international sanctions by providing nuclear weapons-related material to a country like Iran or _____ _____, is trying to hide that activity because it's illicit activity. What metadata lets you do is _______ that. The alternative to that is one that's much less efficient and much more invasive of _______, which is gigantic amounts of content __________. So metadata, in that _____, actually is privacy-enhancing. And we don't, contrary to some of the _____ that's been printed, we don't sit there and _____ out metadata profiles of average people. If you're not connected to one of those valid intelligence targets, you are not of interest to us.

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Original Text


RL: I don't really understand that argument. I think that metadata's important for a couple of reasons. Metadata is the information that lets you find connections that people are trying to hide. So when a terrorist is corresponding with somebody else who's not known to us but is engaged in doing or supporting terrorist activity, or someone who's violating international sanctions by providing nuclear weapons-related material to a country like Iran or North Korea, is trying to hide that activity because it's illicit activity. What metadata lets you do is connect that. The alternative to that is one that's much less efficient and much more invasive of privacy, which is gigantic amounts of content collection. So metadata, in that sense, actually is privacy-enhancing. And we don't, contrary to some of the stuff that's been printed, we don't sit there and grind out metadata profiles of average people. If you're not connected to one of those valid intelligence targets, you are not of interest to us.

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