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 ...

VPNs encrypt your traffic, but they aren't blind to your activity. Here's the metadata your provider can see—and how to spot services that misuse it.

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 ...

You, as a decision maker or implementer, are frequently bombarded with the message that the data in your organization is its lifeblood. In the modern digital age, that data has immense value to your ...

The future is encrypted. Real-time, encrypted chat apps like Signal and WhatsApp, and messaging apps like Telegram, WeChat, and Messenger—used by two out of five people worldwide—help safeguard ...

Metadata, data about data, are an essential component of any data sharing system. They power discovery and bind together related datasets. They provide essential context, describing, for example, who ...

When Edward Snowden released classified material exposing the U.S. government's secret surveillance program, the government insisted it did not listen in on calls. Instead, it merely collected ...

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 ...

A simple change to your ZFS setup can drastically improve everyday tasks like browsing directories and scanning media ...

If this NSA data-snooping thing has you wondering about how much can be learned from your email metadata, there's an easy — and safe — way to find out. A new public Web application from the MIT Media ...