Should lawyers use metadata

should lawyers use metadata

I use Microsoft Word, Outlook, Excel and many other office programs. Do you use the same? What many of us do not know is that in each email and office file we create, we are also creating a hidden trail of data about our documents. These programs automatically save information such as who worked on the document, when and for how long was the document open, who printed the document, when was it printed and from what work station.

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Democratic Indian (n/a) 01 September 2012

Metadata can be easily removed from documents. How to remove metadata read this https://lawyerist.com/how-to-quickly-and-easily-remove-meta-data/

Instead of using MS Office one can always use free and open source softwares like LibreOffice which does pretty much everything what MS Office does. Moreover one can use Ubuntu instead of Windows. For details one may read this https://lawyerist.com/tag/openofficeorg/