When Words Come Back From The Dead – David M. Ewalt Forbes.com (December 13, 2005) How pharmaceutical giant Merck was embarrassed by a metadata leak.

Indiana University - University Information Technology Services How can I remove hidden information from Microsoft Word, Excel and Powerpoint documents? Microsoft Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents contain a variety of hidden information, including names, email addresses, deleted text, revision marking, and locations of related files on your computer. While some of the data is needed by collaboration features such as Track Changes, Comments, and Send for Review, other information you may not intend to share can be viewable by anyone who has access to the document. (November 2005)

UN Office doctored report on Murder of Hariri By James Bone and Nicolas Blanford (The Times, October 22, 2005) Reveals how the Track changes left in a report issued by the UN on Syria’s involvement in the murder of Lebanese Prime Minister, Rafik Hariri, revealed that it was altered last minute. (2005 Metadata Articles)

Italy Media Reveals Iraq Details (May 1, 2005): Pentagon Document on Death of Italian Agent – published in PDF format not secure: A pentagon document was published on the internet with classified information blacked out. It was discovered that the shading could easily be removed to show the information below, much to the pentagon’s embarrassment. This is an example of why PDF is not the cleanest format to publish a document in. Out recommendation is always to scrub Word documents before converting them to a PDF format for publishing. Italy Media Reveals Iraq Details by David Willey BBC World News

Lawyers and Metadata by Donald B. Johnston, Aird & Berlis LLP, Toronto (April 2005) – discusses the decision in the matter of Big Pond Communications v. Kennedy, (2004), 70 O.R. (3d) 115, Pierce, J. of the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in relation to the metadata found on the statement of claim - 2005 Metadata Articles.

Metadata: Hidden Information in Microsoft Word Documents and Its Ethical Implications – by Brian D. Zall – published in The Colorado Lawyer 53 (October 2004). Article written by an Attorney on the Ethical implications of metadata - 2005 Metadata Articles.

Metadata reveals SCO switched legal target (March 4, 2004):

(2005 Metadata Articles ) Lawyers may need Microsoft Word lessons by Stephen Shankland And Scott Ard. Silicon.com. Track changes Metadata showed that the SCO Group had initially prepared a complaint against Bank of America, as part of a lawsuit against DaimlerChrysler and Autozone, but had later removed the reference.

What’s hidden in that document you posted? By Robert Gellman Government Computer News (November 24, 2003) Examples of embarrassing metadata found in government documents. (2005 Metadata Articles)

Microsoft Word bytes Tony Blair in the butt – by Richard M. Smith (June 30, 2003) Microsoft Word documents are notorious for containing private information in file headers which people would sometimes rather not share. The British government of Tony Blair just learned this lesson the hard way: Read Article (contains other links to Metadata articles and documented incidents) - 2005 Metadata Articles