An Australian news reporter released his cell phone metadata to the public

It was only his outbound calls and texts, still, the public was able to piece together a remarkably accurate profile of his life. They figured out where his parents live, when he left the country for foreign travel, when the drawbridge went up on his route to work, and when he moved to a new house to be closer to work. They produced heat maps of the area showing the most calls that were quite interesting.

They also made some wildly inaccurate guesses. This was just one half of the data: if they'd had access to more metadata, they would have made a much more exhaustive map. The article links to the original release of data which apparently you can still download and play with.

Australia law allows you to download your metadata from your cell provider.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-08-24/metadata-what-you-found-will-ockenden/6703626


This is security expert Bruce Schneier's take on the data with some good comments from his reading faithful.

https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2015/09/what_can_you_le.html

"Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one"

This is a list of 50 quotes from Sir Terry Pratchett, perhaps my favorite author, who passed away six months ago this week. I picked up his new book Saturday, I didn't know it was a Tiffany Aching/Wee Free Men book. I quite look forward to starting it today, at the same time I'm depressed that there will be no more. I totally respect his family's decision to not allow more to be written, but still it saddens me. At least he left behind a HUGE volume of work for us to enjoy.

I had the pleasure and honor of meeting him at a Discworld convention in Tempe in 2010(?). Really nice guy and I got a I have a signed hardback of Good Omens somewhere here. I wonder if I could get Neil Gaiman to sign it if I mailed it to him.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/authors/terry-pratchett-best-quotes/