Microsoft Provides a Good Illustration of the Metadata Exposure Problem
June 13, 2007
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.
Ed's recent post "What's Hidden in Your Word Documents?" also is an eye-opener on the topic for those who are not familiar with the workings of the default settings in Office 2007 (that may include some bar regulators in the US).
For a good overview for lawyers, see Mining the Value from Metadata by Dennis Kennedy, Evan Schaeffer and Tom Mighell.
