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The tired cliche used by those advocating for mandatory data retention is that metadata is the "envelope" not the "letter". That is, it tells you who sent what to whom, where and at what time. Since ...

Put simply, metadata is data about data. Metadata is contained in virtually every device that collects data today. For example, document files leave detailed snippets including who created and edited ...