A new paper published Monday by the New America Foundation demonstrably destroys the US government claim that bulk metadata collection is useful. (Three US senators made the same claim back in ...

An organization of database and data warehouse vendors founded in 1995. Within a year, it introduced the Metadata Interchange Specification (MDIS) as a standard for defining metadata. It also ...

Descriptive data about the creation and changes to an article, image or video. Provenance has always referred to a record of ownership of a work of art or literature. See Content Credentials and ...

The Book Industry Study Group has published Development, Use, and Modification of Book Product Metadata, a report on how publishers, retailers and other vendors in the digital supply chain create and ...

Apple last week faced renewed scrutiny for its data-sharing practices, following a report that it retains iMessage metadata and shares it with law enforcement when presented with a court order. The ...

The U.S. National Security Agency built a “Google-like” search engine to give domestic and international government agencies access to details of billions of calls, texts and instant messages sent by ...