On Monday evening, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence finally made public the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order approving a program to collect metadata—that is, ...

How come the NSA knows who I spoke to last Nov. 10 at 11 a.m. and for how long, yet I can’t find the phone number of a colleague I called last night? It’s simple -- metadata. CNN defines metadata ...

Hidden metadata provides useful file information, but it could also endanger the privacy of your clients or employees. Microsoft Word's metadata, or document properties, stores details about files.

When we talk and write about IT issues, we use certain words to mean many different things: “Platform,” “architecture,” and “integration” are among the worst offenders. But the most overloaded term in ...

Managing large volumes of documents and their metadata presents a challenge for any enterprise, but organizations such as financial institutions that need to retain so many documents for audit and ...

Metadata can say a lot about a given document -- as well as the document's creator. Here's how to manage what types metadata appear in your Office documents to protect your security while still giving ...

How to let SharePoint users add just the right amount of information to make searching for files easier, without going overboard. Although SharePoint is primarily marketed as a collaboration platform, ...

Split your metadata from your files, and suddenly your sluggish document system becomes fast, scalable and surprisingly cheap to run. When I was tasked with modernizing our enterprise document ...

You can tell a lot about a document by its metadata, such as when the document was created, who created it, the time of its last edits, and more. Document Metadata Cleaner helps you to keep this ...