A very small thing called “metadata” is getting bigger, at least in legal significance.

Attorneys said that lawsuits demanding the production of metadata — the digital DNA of a document that can prove who created it, when and who may have altered it over time — have increased in recent years. And courts are honoring many of those requests when they are made early on, and relevance is shown.

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