FRCP And MetaData - Avoid The Lurking E-Discovery Disaster
Dennis Kennedy writes in this recent article about practical ways to avoid the lurking ediscovery diaster that metadata can cause.
As I discussed previously here, here, and here, metadata is a troublesome issue in ediscovery. Metadata is commonly defined as "data about data." (However, defining it as "hidden data about data" is more appropriate because metadata is not readily visible to the person reading the document.) It is hidden information which describes how the document was formatted and how, when, and by whom it was collected, created, accessed, and modified. For example, the metadata of a Word document would include the file name assigned to the document, where the document is saved, when it was created and last modified, and who could read it and write to it.
