Court Rules on Metadata

[Dave Farber <dave () farber net>]

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> From: Labmanager <labmanager () gmail com>
> Date: October 31, 2009 9:21:15 AM EDT
> To: dave () farber net
> Subject: Court Rules on Metadata

> http://reason.com/blog/2009/10/30/there-is-no-way-to-write-a-pun
>
> A ruling from the Arizona Supreme Court yesterday means that from  
> now on the metadata of public records is now part of that record,  
> and has to be handed over in response to a public information  
> request. The original Arizona case concerns a police whistle blower,  
> who suspected that bad performance reviews had been created after  
> the fact in the digital personnel files to justify his demotion. The  
> department refused to hand over the data about the creation of those  
> records, but now the court has ruled that they must.
>
> Transparency advocates are excited about the ruling, because—among o 
> ther things—metadata has been useful in revealing the influence of l 
> obbyists and other special interests on the legislative process:
>
> One of the most famous metadata lobbying goof-ups occurred in 2004,  
> when Wired busted California Attorney General Bill Lockyer  
> circulating an anti-P2P [peer-to-peer filesharing] letter that,  
> after a look at its Word metadata, appeared to have been either  
> drafted or edited by the [Motion Picture Association of America].



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