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 ...

Metadata is becoming the central lever for modernization, for AI and for enterprise agility. The organizations that recognize ...

In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

Even the most techno-phobic attorney likely could recite the often-used definition of metadata: “data about data.” However, there are important ethical and practical components to metadata of which ...

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 ...

The former head of the CIA has said "we kill people based on metadata", but as Australia introduces new data retention laws, the country's security chief says he's "not quite sure" what the fuss is ...

Multiple officials are now confirming that the National Security Agency’s practice of collecting all telephone metadata from Verizon, as first reported by the Guardian, is part of a program that has ...

We now know that every day, U.S. phone companies quietly send the government a list of who called whom and when -- “telephony metadata” -- for every call made on their networks, because of a secret ...