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Metadata and privacy
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Metadata consist of information that characterizes data. Metadata are
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used to provide documentation for data products. In essence, metadata
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answer who, what, when, where, why, and how about every facet of the
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data that are being documented. Metadata within a file can tell a lot
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about you. Cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what
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camera was used. Office documents like PDF or Office automatically
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adds author and company information to documents and spreadsheets.
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Maybe you don't want to disclose those information.
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This is precisely the job of mat2: getting rid, as much as possible,
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of metadata.
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mat2 provides:
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a library called libmat2;
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a command line tool called mat2,
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a service menu for Dolphin, KDE's default file manager
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If you prefer a regular graphical user interface, you might be
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interested in Metadata Cleaner
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(https://metadatacleaner.romainvigier.fr/ , not on SBo), which is
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using mat2 under the hood.
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