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    Document Metadata, FileMind, ediscovery 19.01.2010 1 Comment

    discovery_DetailsView_croppedSteve Jobs and Michael Dell did it. Executives are sometimes tempted  to swap those worthless options (issued before the crash…) with some shiny (…newly backdated…) and lucrative ones. However, we live in the days of electronic documents: getting caught (with the hand in the cookie jar…) is a risk, because embedded file metadata can show the accurate date of a Word or PDF document! And recently, more courts consider this vital piece of information as a part of the discovery process.

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    Tags: MS Office, PDF, Word

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