Contrary to what you might believe, some of your personalized files are compromised, and things have been this way for years. Your documents, pictures, and videos all have metadata information ...

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In many cases, it is important to remove metadata from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and that’s because it includes identifying information that may include such things as your full name, initials, ...

Millions have taken to the streets across the world to protest the murder of George Floyd, an unarmed Black man killed by a white police officer in Minneapolis last month. It’s in part because of this ...

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 ...

A word is creeping up on us and in the process changing its meaning. Metadata strictly means, the data that describes data. Increasingly it means the hidden data accompanying the data we use.

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 ...

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 ...