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BIZ Continuity Not Always a Disaster
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... Bank of America and CitiGroup were forced to disclose the loss of
private
customer information on tape earlier this year. "People drive our tapes
offsite ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=83140&WT.svl=news1_1>

AUDIT: Labor Department is too lax about worker records
Savannah Morning News - Savannah,GA,USA
... had been compromised - many from driver's license files. The records
were found among the home computers of ... They shred documents, guard
social security numbers ...
<http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/102505/3386938.shtml>

D theft roundtable
CNET News.com - United States
... The one-to-one ratio between records breached and consumers harmed,
implied in much ... What rights do individuals have to limit, correct
or delete this information ...
<http://news.com.com/Identity+crisis+Roundtable/2009-1029_3-5907186.html>


FIRST two Venice Legacy Awards presented
Venice Gondolier - Venice,FL,USA
The late Betty Arnall, founder of the city's archives, was honored with
the first-ever Venice Legacy Award from the Venice Historical
Commission,
at Tuesday's ...
<http://www.venicegondolier.com/NewsArchive3/102605/vn1.htm>

TOWER'S TRIM toast of the town
IDM.net.au  - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... Tower furthered this idea when they conducted a survey of senior
records
management professionals from 53 Australian organisations at the recent
Records ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6791>

FAMILY heirlooms pampered, appraised at workshop
City Pulse - Lansing,MI,USA
... "We hope to educate people on how to properly store and care for
these
objects," said Harvey, State Archivist at the Library of Michigan. ...
<http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/051026/stories/Family%20Heirlooms.html>

BREACH prevention: Adding security to the purchasing process
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
... If you don't have your own cases to share, use external cases.
Between
ChoicePoint, MasterCard, Time Warner, etc., there are plenty of examples
available. ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/tip/1,289483,sid14_gci1136869,00.ht
ml>

TO Catch a Data Leak
Business 2.0 - San Francisco,CA,USA
So far this year, data breaches have tainted the reputations -- and the
security -- of 80 organizations, from Bank of America (BAC) to
ChoicePoint
to Time ...
<http://www.business2.com/b2/web/articles/0,17863,1122915,00.html>

ISO issues new criteria for long-life PDF documents
Royal Gazette - Bermuda
... Now ISO, the world standards setting body, has issued a new set of
criteria for long-life PDF documents. The new ISO standard requires the
files must remain ...
<http://www.theroyalgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051026/BUSIN
ESS/110260096>

EUROPEAN Committee Divided Over Plans to Soften Data Retention Law
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
A European Parliament committee was split Monday over plans to soften a
proposed law on data retention, with some deputies proposing data be
kept
for only ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1130243601935>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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