Mining for Metadata: Ethics Questions Surrounding Inadvertently Sent Embedded Data, Vol. 50, No. 6 RES GESTAE 35 (January/February 2007)

Remember when you worried about what to do if you received an inadvertently sent fax from opposing counsel? This conundrum has been dressed up in a set of 21st century clothes . . . metadata.  You hear the word everywhere these days.  What is it?  Technically, it is data about data.  Virtually every digital document [...]