Metadata, redux
There was an interesting post in e-Discovery yesterday. e-Discovery focuses on issues and developments of particular relevance or interest to the legal profession, but when the top spy agency in our country still makes mistakes with metadata, it’s a reminder to us all.
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On May 14, 2007, a Senior Procurement Executive of DNI gave an unclassified presentation to a group of outside contractors in Colorado entitled “Procuring the Future.†Her PowerPoint included a slide with two graphics depicting the trend of award dollars to contractors from 1995 to 2006. Because these figures are highly classified, a scale of the total number of award dollars was omitted from the Y-axis of the bar chart. The government contractors were only shown the graphical bars, and were left to guess what the actual expenditures were that the bars depicted. A copy of this unclassified slide is shown below.
Read the rest of what happened on e-Discovery.
