Meaning in Metadata – InsideCounsel InsideTech Newsletter – Brett Burney
Ensuring your documents don’t reveal more than you intend
Metadata gets a lot of bad press. Whenever it’s mentioned, someone is getting blistered by hidden data they negligently left in an electronic file.
Metadata is actually a functional and necessary element of files managed by a computer operating system. A computer tags each file with indexable snippets of information such as the file’s creation date and author so that the operating system can properly identify and catalog the file among thousands. …Read the full article on Inside Counsel…