In 2021, Gartner dropped Metadata Management from their Magic Quadrant, replacing it with a Market Guide for Active Metadata Management. On the surface, this may seem like a minor change, but in ...

Metadata seems to be talked about a lot more now. Marc Benioff, CEO of Salesforce, mentioned it five times since 2018 on earnings calls. In 2024's call, he called it out 26 times. So what is the ...

When you connect to a website or open an app, you're not just sending the information you intentionally share. Every interaction also generates metadata—details like your IP address, approximate ...

It seems like every day there’s a new story in the media about sensitive data getting in to the wrong hands. Headlines around companies or government bodies leaking a customer database or client ...

The NSA doesn't have to intercept and read all your messages to know what you're doing -- and neither do many Internet businesses. What I find most remarkable about all the hubbub about the National ...

VPNs encrypt your traffic, but they aren't blind to your activity. Here's the metadata your provider can see—and how to spot services that misuse it. I’ve been writing about technology since 2012, ...