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# MIT I ask, where's my metadata?
- URL: https://balaustine.mymagic.page/mit-i-ask-wheres-my-metadata/
- Published: 2013-07-30T15:01:55.000Z
- Updated: 2013-07-30T15:01:55.000Z
- Author: VM
- Tags: Uncategorized, Immersion, metadata, MIT Media Lab, #Migrated-1787483357778, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-08-23 11:09

![tumblr_inline_mpxbb1xF4T1qz4rgp](http://astrohep.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/tumblr_inline_mpxbb1xf4t1qz4rgp.png)

MIT’s new app, [Immersion](http://immersion.media.mit.edu/?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page), uses your Gmail metadata to draw a digital footprint of your email-centric life. It also shows how small apps are well poised to commercialize metadata, especially by its backers posing as research institutions instead of as commercial organizations. In the post-Snowden era, such apps comprise a vast jurisdiction where the use of metadata is still unregulated, and is especially well-poised to stall consumer-level technology. Here’s [my OpEd](http://www.thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/mit-i-ask-wheres-my-metadata/article4909286.ece?ref=balaustine.mymagic.page) on this for *The Hindu*.