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, ...

Metadata isn't like the regular data we know – but the key differences between the two can be hard to figure out. To put it simply, though, metadata is often referred to as data that sorts and ...

The word “metadata” may have entered the public consciousness when President Obama uttered it, in response to Edward Snowden’s revelations about the National Security Agency. But that does not mean it ...

To make reams of information useful, businesses need to find, organize and compare it. That’s where metadata management comes in. Jennifer Zaino is a New York-based freelance writer specializing in ...

Metadata matters. According to Applied Discovery, one of a variety of companies that delivers and manages electronic discovery services, metadata, or data that is embedded in electronic documents, can ...