Atlanta rapper Killer Mike noted on Twitter yesterday that when he tried to download the Magna Carta app—which has racked up more than a half million downloads, according to Billboard—it requested some oddly intrusive permissions from your Android phone. Why does Jay-Z need your GPS location? Is he going to cruise by on a platinum-coated jet ski, personally chucking out copies of the album to people who downloaded the app?
What the NSA needs to do, clearly, is start giving away Jay-Z albums: People will be lining up to turn their metadata over.
Who DOESN’T have our Metdata?
That's the real question- the answer?
Your phone carrier, your internet provider, Apple and or Microsoft, Facebook (if you use it), Google, your email host.
That's just off the top of my head and I, admitedly, can't speak with any authority on any of this...
Here's the truth- when you are on your computer you may as well be sitting in the town square- it's not private. If you want privacy you need to unplug from the wall socket or disconnect from the wifi. There is no other way. I'm not saying this is right and I'm not advocating a police state- merely stating the facts as they stand.
Jay ain't passed the bar, but he knows a little bit. Enough that FISA has illegally authorized him to search your shit.
ON A SIDE NOTE, If you download the Sean Combs album, he wants you to know that he's still alive.