In many cases, it is important to remove metadata from Microsoft Excel spreadsheets, and that’s because it includes identifying information that may include such things as your full name, initials, ...

Workshare, a specialist in collaboration software built around Microsoft Office applications, is aiming to alert businesses to the danger of hidden data lurking in their documents. The company on ...

Every photo you take on your smartphone contains more than just the image. Hidden metadata gets saved automatically with each picture, including the exact GPS coordinates of where it was taken, the ...

Tagging capabilities in Windows Vista have come under fire as potentially dangerous. Is metadata a threat to information security, or is this much ado about nothing?<BR><BR> Story.

For those that don't know, certain photos actually contain metadata which can be used to track where a certain photo was taken. There is, however, a new way of hiding the users' metadata location from ...

When creating or editing a Word document, some personal information that you do not wish to share will be added to the file automatically. The Document Inspector feature searches for and removes ...