Mining for Embedded Data: Is It Ethical to Take Intentional Advantage of Other People's Failures
David C. Hricik · University of North Carolina School of Law Scholarship Repository (University of North Carolina Hospitals) · 2007
This article analyzes embedded data that accompanies many documents and the legal ethical issues that accompany inadvertent receipt of documents containing metadata. It addresses ABA Model Rule 4.4(b), ABA Formal Ethics Opinion 92-368 and 06-442, and New York opinion 2003-04, Florida Bar Opinion 06-2, and others.