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The Properties, Personal Information, and Metadata stored in files come in handy when you search for them on your computer, as they help identify the file, document, image, picture, or photo. This ...

Sometimes metadata is intentionally removed to protect exposure of sensitive details including names, comments, and revision ...

In general, there is 'data attached to data (metadata)' in the data that is overflowing with the world, such as the shooting date and shooting equipment for photos, and the creator and organization ...

The US Supreme Court Tuesday declined to hear an appeal by a professional photographer who sued a hospitality tech company for removing copyright metadata from his ...

Microsoft Corp. does not adequately address metadata management in its upcoming Windows Vista OS, posing risks that documents with potentially embarrassing data could inadvertently be revealed to ...

The problem, said Gartner analysts Michael Silver and Neil MacDonald, isn't in Vista's search function directly. Rather, the search feature will tempt users to add information to files' metadata to ...

Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have ...