Metadata is a term for data that describes the attributes of another set of data. Metadata can determine much of what you encounter online, from the top search results returned in Google to the ...

The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

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 ...

Philip Branch has received funding from organisations working in the Lawful Interception area. Metadata related to lawful interception has been in the news a bit lately. You may have seen last week ...

Managing files and data can often feel like an uphill battle, especially when dealing with ever-growing repositories of documents, spreadsheets, and other digital assets. If you’ve ever found yourself ...

Struggling with MCP authentication? The November 2025 spec just changed everything. CIMD replaces DCR's complexity with a simple URL-based approach—no registration endpoints, no client ID sprawl, ...

Anna’s Archive claims it has scraped nearly all of Spotify, acquiring 300TB of data, for a so-called "preservation" project.

The shadow library targeted metadata in what it calls a preservation effort and said it's considering allowing the ...