Metadata as Evidence in the Legal System

The latest edition of First Monday includes the article the use and impact of metadata in civil cases.

According to the abstract:

This article is one of the first to explore and delve into the legal system, with a focus on the burgeoning use of metadata in civil cases. Although metadata is embedded in all kinds of digital files including text, audio, and image files, as well as many social media and game applications, few understand how both the visible and embedded information is being “mined” (collected) for a myriad of uses by organizations, such as, Google or even the United States government. Consequently, in this paper, we explore the implications of metadata use in civil cases and how it could bring a new era of evidence in litigation, which has huge ramifications for how the average citizen may begin to view their privacy in the course of everyday activities."

While the article has and American slant, this article may still be of interest for those considering the evidence implications of metadata.

About First Monday

First Monday is one of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet. Since its start in May 1996, First Monday has published 2,083 papers in 303 issues, written by 3,013 different authors. In addition, 33 special issues have appeared. The most recent special issue was entitled "Infrastructure-embedded control, circumvention and sovereignty in the Russian Internet."

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