Tech as Metadata Policy Enforcement By: Toby Brown
Recently I’ve taken a position with a large firm based in Houston, Texas. Of course large firms bring challenges along with opportunities when it comes to legal technology. One of the more encouraging pieces of technology I’ve seen here in my first few weeks is called iScrub from Esquire Innovations. In addition to being a worthy metadata removal tool, I have come to appreciate our firm’s implementation of the product.
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Get Ready For a Whole New Vista on E-Discovery By: Courtney David Mills
This article discusses Vista’s security features, shadow copy tracking, and the new file formats and PDF support offered in Office 2007. It will also discuss the practical impact of these features on the EDD process. One of the most probable impacts will relate to Vista’s encryption feature, Bitlocker.
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What every attorney should know about the hidden information in their client’s documents By: Jon Rowe.
Microsoft Word contains hidden information regarding a documents characteristics, when it was created, edited and which author modified the document. In addition to the visible text in a Microsoft Word document there is also information which isn't visible that track the document through creation and revision.

It is easy to understand that during a computer forensic exam or the discovery phase of a litigation metadata can play an important role. Metadata can assist with an evidence timeline and identify those who touched the evidence.
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Avoid The Lurking E-Discovery Disaster - Part II (Metadata Articles) by Jeff Fehrman
Metadata is too often defined today by referring to the origins and history of the component parts of the term. You often see metadata referred to as "data about data," a linguistically accurate and descriptive formulation, but not an especially useful or illuminating one.
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Metadata: Even the Government is at Risk by ZDNet Editor
Microsoft Word might be easy to use and feature-rich but government employees who use it for sensitive documents may well be publishing redacted, restricted or even classified information.
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The Hidden Dangers of Documents by Mark Ward
Your Microsoft Word document can give readers more information about you than you might think. Even Alastair Campbell has fallen foul of the snippets of invisible data few of us realize our documents contain. Usually with Microsoft Word, what you see is what you get.

If you make a change to a document, then that is what you see when it gets printed out.

But in fact, in many cases it is what you cannot see at first glance that proves more interesting.
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Metadata Mistake Made By Spy Agency by Roger Matus
Several times, I have quoted the case of Williams v Sprint to illustrate that the courts want archived email with the metadata intact. (Not all email archiving products do this.) As an example to explain, I state that metadata includes message headers, routing information and more.
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Microsoft Provides a Good Illustration of the Metadata Exposure Problem by Ed Botts
Ed Botts offers up a great example of how tricky the hidden data, or metadata, issue can be in Microsoft Office. The victim this time is Microsoft. Irony aside, it's important to understand the example and be attuned to the potential problems.
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A Series of Metadata Articles - Managing Your Metadata by Judye Carter Reynolds
New amendments to the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (“FRCP”) identify electronically stored information, tangible and intangible, as discoverable (relevant, non-privileged) information. To ensure compliance, firms are required to adopt policies regarding the preservation, retention, and destruction of all digital data including their metadata. Litigators are pressed to develop some expertise on the types and locations of document, application and system metadata with the expectation that all metadata may have evidentiary value. The demands are on the IT professionals to deliver a copy or description of all relevant electronic media, their location, and category without delay and be able to substantiate the firm’s retention policies.
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U.S. Government Wages Cyberwar Against Itself by www.InfoWarCon.com
Microsoft Word has a mark-up feature many of use when collaborating. Add/delete/change/freely-comment are its benefits. Metadata also is automatically inserted on a routine basis. But when ignorance charges to the head of the pack, publish it on the web for everyone to see and read our internal private thoughts. The publishing of sensitive information that include the combination of metadata and markup the two can provide aid or comfort to the enemy.
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Word Metadata and Electronic Evidence by Ira P. Rothken
Beyond the visible document and hidden in Word files is data known as "metadata". Metadata can include things like revision history, authors, and "track changes" which reveals the evolution of a document and the various edits that led to the final Word file. (April 2007) Read more here about document metadata ...

White Paper – Microsoft Office Document Inspector, Metadata Management for Microsoft Office 2007 - by Randall Farrar This white paper compares two approaches to metadata management and explains how the Microsoft Office 2007 Document Inspector is significantly lacking as an enterprise-metadata management tool. (April 2007)