Author(s):
Brian Nussbaum
Publication Date:
April 27, 2015
Publication Type:
Other Writing
Recently a member of Congress got into some pretty serious hot water over allegations he accepted numerous unethical, and perhaps illegal, favors including flights on airplanes. The Associated Press, which broke the story, documented these flights in several different ways, but perhaps the most interesting was by examining the location data embedded in pictures that the lawmaker posted on his Instagram account. This “metadata” (data about data) exposed the locations of the politician, who was an inveterate social media documenter of his travels, when the pictures were taken. The story is Read more » about Not ‘digital exhaust;’ rather ‘digital fossils’
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This article by Brian Nussbaum originally appeared on cyberlaw.stanford.edu on April 27, 2015 at 10:00AM
