Neowin News Feed for: Metadata

Microsoft Teams to automatically strip hidden location data from shared images

Paul Hill — Thu, 29 Jan 2026 07:02:01 +0000

Protect your privacy with a new Teams update that automatically removes GPS coordinates and device details from images before they are shared. Read more...

Anna's Archive claims to have backed up Spotify in a 300TB "preservation archive"

Fiza Ali — Mon, 22 Dec 2025 20:52:01 +0000

A 300TB archive of Spotify's music and metadata has surfaced, raising questions about digital preservation and access. Read more...

Microsoft bringing two big changes to hardware drivers for next gen Windows 11

Sayan Sen — Wed, 07 May 2025 06:36:01 +0000

Microsoft has announced two changes to how Windows 11 hardware drivers will be developed going forward. Read more...

Chrome 96 is rolling out with faster page navigation cache and PNG metadata in Clipboard

Usama Jawad — Tue, 16 Nov 2021 12:14:46 +0000

Chrome 96 is rolling out today with some performance improvements in page navigation and retention of PNG metadata in clipboard. It also faces some pushback from the Safari WebKit team. Read more...

Microsoft is retiring a Windows Media Player feature on Windows 7

Usama Jawad — Sun, 27 Jan 2019 14:00:02 +0000

With Windows 7 nearing its end of extended support, Microsoft has seemingly begun retiring some services for the OS. The updating of metadata is now unsupported in Windows Media Player in Windows 7. Read more...

Google kicks off beta for peer-to-peer offline app installs

Usama Jawad — Sat, 20 Oct 2018 04:10:01 +0000

Google has announced a beta for its peer-to-peer offline app installation program, which verifies that an app that is being transferred to another offline device is secure, by checking its metadata. Read more...

Google starts adding image rights metadata to content in Google Images

Paul Hill — Thu, 27 Sep 2018 17:46:01 +0000

Google has announced that Google Images will now display creator, credit, and copyright notice information. This should help photographers protect their copyrighted material and get attribution. Read more...

The NSA collected over 530 million call detail records in 2017

Paul Hill — Sun, 06 May 2018 02:04:01 +0000

A new report from the Office of the Director of National Intelligence has reported just how many U.S. citizens have had their call detail records collected last year. The records consist of metadata. Read more...