What is Meta data? While creating a Word document, or taking a picture, it also creates hidden personal information like cameras record data about when a picture was taken and what camera was used, or author and company information, network server, etc to documents and spreadsheets. Anyone can easily find it out these data. So for security reasons, you wouldn’t want to share these data with others. This is important especially when you send these documents or images electronically (via email). With Windows 7 you can scrub a file of unwanted metadata very easily. Follow as described below.