Metadata and Privacy: A Technical and Legal Overview

Citation
Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, Metadata and Privacy: A Technical and Legal Overview (Oct. 2014) (full-text).

Overview
Given the ubiquitous nature of metadata and the powerful inferences that can be drawn about specific individuals, government institutions and private-sector organizations will have to govern their collection and disclosure activities according to appropriate processes and standards that are commensurate with the potential level of sensitivity of metadata in any given set of circumstances.