Communications data

Communications data (sometimes referred to as traffic data or metadata) concerns information about communication.^[1]

Communications data is a part of a message that should be distinguished from the content of the message. It contains data on the communication's origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration, or type of underlying service.^[2]

References

1. "Briefing Note: Why Communications Data (Metadata) Matter" (PDF). Big Brother Watch.
2. Convention on Cybercrime. Artikel 1(d): "traffic data" means any computer data relating to a communication by means of a computer system, generated by a computer system that formed a part in the chain of communication, indicating the communication’s origin, destination, route, time, date, size, duration, or type of underlying service.

See also

• Call detail record
• Internet Protocol Detail Record
• Pen Register
• Data Retention Directive
• Interception Modernization Programme
• Mastering the Internet
• NSA Call Database
• CSE and Communications data
• Titan traffic database