What is Metadata? YF explains

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As big tech companies, such as Google (GOOG), Microsoft (MSFT), Meta (META), and Amazon (AMZN), prepare to release their latest round of earnings, questions surrounding ‘metadata’ and what companies are doing with the information that they get from you - the consumer - keeps coming to the forefront. But what does it really mean and why is it important to social media companies? Metadata is information that describes and explains data. In layman’s terms, let’s say you post a picture, that picture, even when you've taken it, already has the location that that picture was taken, the date that it was taken, and the type of camera that you were probably using. Those three things are essentially called metadata. Yahoo Finance’s Brad Smith explains when metadata actually comes into play for social media companies and what they do with your data.

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