David Cole looks at why metadata matters, in the New York Review of Books.

(Also have a look at Smari Mcarthy talking about metadata in one of our short video sketches.)

Newsreadsus shows you who's reading you when you read the news (mainly German newspapers).

(Go to our newly-relaunched myshadow.org to find out what you can do about it)

(A slide made by British intelligence agency GCHQ)

What does the lived reality of big data *feel* like? The New Enquiry asks, and tries to answer.

Unwanted Witness Uganda reports that the LGBTI communities in Uganda have been targeting by a form of malware called Zeus -  “a spyware that accesses and collects details of one’s mailing and steals confidential information from a compromised computer.”

(The 6 Zone Nine bloggers; image from Global Voices).

Six members of the blogging collective Zone Nine were arrested on 26 April, Global Voices reported.

“If the US government’s targeted killings are lawful, we should have no hesitation in making them public, says David Cole in the New York Review of Books. “Surely the least we can do is to literally count and report the lives we’ve taken.”

Also read: “The Rise of the Drone Master: pop culture recasts Obama”, in the New York Times.

Have a look at The Functional Art's weekly resources this week, which looks at the pitfalls of Big Data from a variety of viewpoints.

Pakistan's new 'Cyber Security Bill 2014 “needs to be rewritten in light of human rights implications, and the existing draconian information control regime that the government... is so ardently creating,” writes Furhan Hussain on Dawn.com

Journalists Resource looks at the problem of under-reporting.