A solution that became a problem looking for a solution

Yes. That lead is a bit circular, and confusing. But the answer is metadata. A topic that is, in itself, a solution to classifying and finding documents in a large data store. But a solution that becomes a problem in e-discovery and the GRC context that tends to get corporations, law firms, and lawyers in trouble with disciplinary rules and clients.

Individuals can use metadata cleaners to manually remove metadata before publishing. These manual tools, however, are not functional for Web site publishers where content is loaded and published in mass. For that, you need to look at products with automatic metadata removal that can be inserted into the publishing workflow from the likes of 3BView.