NSA Files: Decoded - Your Digital Trail

In November 2013 The Guardian published a comprehensive overview of the revelations about the mass surveillance by the NSA and GCHQ: NSA Files: Decoded. It outlines the main stories, what they mean and why they matter.

'NSA Files: Decoded' includes several visualisations, among them Your Digital Trail in the second part, "All the data about your data:

One unseen consequence of the Snowden disclosures is the entry of the term ‘metadata’ into common usage. This is information about the time and location of a phone call or email, as opposed to the contents of those conversations or messages. The distinction forms the crux of the debate over the proper scope of NSA surveillance.

Your Digital Trail allows you to see which traces you leave when you use email, Facebook, a digital camera or other digital tools and how these traces might be used by secret services, such as the NSA or the GCHQ.