Shanal Singh4427 Kingscote WayMather, CA 9565506/27/2022Dear Mr. Galman,I am pleased to inform you that I have completed the research regardingmetadata and EXIF (Exchangeable Image File) data. I understand that you arerepresenting OOO in court with regards to Mr. Informant’s case and chose mespecifically to aid you. For that, I am very grateful. I have compiled my research in thesimplest and clearest way possible to explain it to you.Firstly, I would like to explain what metadata is. In the simplest terms possible, itis the data about data. Information such as the file’s name, size, path, and dates it wascreated or accessed are all examples of metadata, specifically, file system metadata.One thing to remember is, since these metadata are not part of the actual file, they canbe changed or altered (such as moving a file location) without changing the hash valueof the file itself.There is also application metadata. Application metadata are similar to filesystem metadata, however, they are stored within the file itself and are defined by theapplications that create them. This means when application metadata are altered,
