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Free Download: Doc Scrubber

If you create and distribute documents with MS Office, you need to be aware of metadata.  What’s that, you say?  Metadata is data about data.  It describes how, when, and by whom a document was created.

You can manually remove this hidden information, or you can purchase one of the metadata scrubbers available on the market to do it for you automatically.  Yesterday Lifehacker featured a free metadata scrubber: Doc Scrubber, which works with Windows versions 98 through XP.  (Please note that I haven’t tested or used this product yet, but since it’s a freebie, it’s certainly worth a try.)

For more info, including some great examples of actual embarrassing metadata slip-ups perpetrated by the Democratic National Committee, U.S. Central Command, United Nations, U.S. Attorney’s Office in San Francisco, and the FBI, come to our one-hour Internet Ethics CLE class.

Full post as published by Jenkins Webblits on November 19, 2008 (boomark / email).