Metadata Tags in Windows Vista OS could Pose Security and Privacy Risk

[Kristijntje]

Windows Vista will improve search functionality on a PC by letting users tag files with metadata, but those tags could cause unwanted and embarrassing information disclosure, Gartner analysts have warned.

"This opens up the possibility of the inadvertent disclosure of this metadata to other users inside and outside of your organization,"...

For example, a user might use "good customers" and "bad customers" as keywords on contract files. If such a contract is sent to the customer with the keyword still attached, it could cause embarrassment or even loss of business, the analysts wrote.

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