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Constitutional Law Prof Blog
ACLU, Government File Motions in NSA Call-Tracking Case
The ACLU earlier this week filed a motion for a preliminary injunction in ACLU v. Clapper, the case in the Southern District of New York challenging the NSA's mass collection…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
NSA Collecting Phone Records
By ConLawProf initials at end of post
The National Security Agency is collecting telephone metadata of U.S. customers of Verizon, first reported The Guardian. The NSA sweeping effort appears to have been in place for years, but The Guardian…
Discovery Advocate
Sedona Conference Issues Draft Guidance on Ethics and Metadata
The Sedona Conference’s recently published draft Commentary on Ethics & Metadata is a practical guide to the different and sometimes conflicting duties a lawyer faces in two very different contexts:…
Delaware Corporate & Commercial Litigation Blog
The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics & Metadata
The Sedona Conference Commentary on Ethics & Metadata March 2012 Public Comment Version The Sedona Conference has issued a draft commentary on Ethics and Metadata for public review and comment,…
3 Geeks and a Law Blog
Native Format and Redaction Requests – Give Them What They’re Entitled to and No More
By Toby Brown
At the 2011 ILTA Annual Conference I had the opportunity to refresh some of my e-discovery knowledge. A few years back I was in that market and like to stay…
Law Practice Tips
The Ins and Outs of Metadata Mining
By Jim Calloway
"The ins and outs of metadata mining" is an article published this week in the Canadian edition of Lawyers Weekly. I was quoted in the article, along with Canadian legal…
Law Practice Tips
Scrubbing Metadata from PDF Files
By Jim Calloway
A PDF file created from a Microsoft Word document contains less metadata than the original Word document. There is less potentially embarassing metadata, like deleted comments. For a lawyer, perhaps…
EvidenceProf Blog
New Problem. Old Solution: Andrew Perlman’s “The Legal Ethics Of Metadata Mining” & What I Think It Tells Us About Compelled Forensic Imaging
By Colin Miller
Metadata is essentially information that is embedded in -- not apparent on the face of -- electronic documents, such as word processing files or spreadsheets. Metadata can contain a wide range of information, including…
School Law
Arizona Court Rules that Metadata is a Public Record
The Arizona Supreme Court recently issued an important ruling providing that the hidden data embedded in electronic public records -- sometimes referred to as metadata -- is a public record that must be disclosed…
HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Vermont’s Invitiation for Trouble?
By HL Chronicle of Data Protection
Vermont recently issued an ethics opinon on metadata which raises questions for lawyers receiving electronic productions.