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Metadata - Risks Webinar Handout
Metadata - Risks Webinar Handout
Metadata - Risks Webinar Handout
Precedents Agenda
• Metadata stripping policies for business • Metadata Basics
purposes can be legitimate
(Anderson v. United States, 544 U.S. 696 [2005])
• What and How?
• Metadata stripping may be regarded as • Risks
spoliation
(Williams v. Sprint/United Management Company, 2005
WL 2401626 [D. Kansas, September 29, 2005])
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Two Main Types
• File
or “Deep”
Live Example
Different Applications…
…Have Different Metadata
Examples
Live Example
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HTML PDF
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Tools
Live Example
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Live Example Questions??
and Exercise
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Presentation Notes
Action Risk
Live Example • Allows notes to be • Distributing or
associated with each publishing a
slide in a presentation presentation that
includes speaker
notes carries the risk
of disclosing
unintended or even
confidential
information
File/Directory Structures
• Sensitive information may be contained in
Live Example the directory hierarchy exposed by the
path
• Path information can provide a view into
the corporate network topology
\\uncpath\\abccompany\\files\
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File/Directory Structures Author History
Action Risk
\\uncpath\\abccompany\\files\
• Up to the last 10 • May identify new
authors that saved a custodians in a legal
document are stored matter
in an area of the • File paths
document that is • Possible audit trails
inaccessible using the
Word application
\\uncpath\\abccompany\\files\