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THE records keeper
FCW.com - USA
Allen Weinstein is the ninth archivist of the United States. He will be
leading the National Archives and Records Administration and the
agency's
Electronic ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article88540-04-11-05-Print>
MEDICAL records security: HIPAA's 3rd deadline not a charm
American Medical News - USA
Washington -- The approach of the compliance deadline for medical
records
security standards is causing a case of "HIPAA fatigue" among many
doctors
who are ...
<http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/18/gvl10418.htm>
MEDICAL records found in Dumpster
KGET 17 - Bakersfield,CA,USA
... decade ago. Maybelline Jackson was calm when she found out her
medical
records were recovered in the trash. "I always wondered ...
<http://www.kget.com/news/local/story.aspx?content_id=39467205-5ED8-4E1A-942F-3733285E6597>
THE Sandy Berger Bind
National Review Online - USA
Is there anyone who honestly thinks the coverage of Sandy Berger's theft
of classified documents wouldn't be dramatically different if he were
a ...
<http://www.nationalreview.com/comment/moran200504110814.asp>
LOST Archers tape joins archives
BBC Birmingham - UK
... running Radio 4 series, The Archers. The recordings from 1977 will
help fill gaps in the BBC's archives. Six years ago the pile ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4426045.stm>
BBC to Launch Creative Archives
Threadwatch.org - USA
The BBC are to finally launch a project started two years ago to release
archived material to the masses along with Channel4 and the British Film
Institute. ...
<http://www.threadwatch.org/node/2240>
PRIME Minister Erdogan said that his party and the opposition will ...
NTV MSNBC - Turkey
"We are opening up all of the state archives. Let everyone come and
study
it, we are ready to settle accounts with our history," he said. ...
<http://www.ntvmsnbc.com/news/318450.asp>
BETTER shred than read: Local businesses and government agencies ...
Muscatine Journal - Muscatine,IA,USA
... Tom Williams says that space for records is limited and older
records
are stored ... Muscatine Power & Water, does its own shredding and also
uses a boiler in the ...
<http://www.muscatinejournal.com/articles/2005/04/11/news/doc425a90c798dce976783004.txt>
GUIDED tour of pages from county's history
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... The Freedom of Information Act, which came into force on January 1,
has brought a new role for the records management officer, Vicky
Stretch,
whose job ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID=995282>
KEEPING records sensible to do
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner - Fairbanks,AK,USA
... Basic records are valuable papers or documents that everyone should
keep. ... birth, marriage, death and divorce certificates or decrees;
deeds; leases; contracts ...
<http://www.news-miner.com/Stories/0,1413,113~7244~2810352,00.html>
STOLEN laptops contain medical info on 185,000 patients
Computerworld Singapore - Singapore
... no evidence that any of the stolen information has ... theft at
University
of California, Berkeley, occurred after thieves walked off with a laptop
computer from a ...
<http://computerworld.com.sg/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=686&pubid=3&issueid=38>
SECURITY measures proposed
The UCLA Daily Bruin - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... and medical information from a UC Berkeley professor's computer, and
a laptop with 98,000 names and Social Security numbers was stolen at
Berkeley
in March of ...
<http://www.dailybruin.ucla.edu/news/articles.asp?id=32722>
London Free Press
Watchdog to attack access law proposals
<http://www.canoe.ca/NewsStand/LondonFreePress/News/2005/04/11/991217-sun.html>
IS your computer secure?
Evansville Courier & Press (subscription) - Evansville,IN,USA
... Earlier this year, hackers broke into ChoicePoint, a data collection
company, and stole the personal information of several thousand people.
...
<http://www.courierpress.com/ecp/computers_and_tech/article/0,1626,ECP_755_3689852,00.html>
Daily Journal, Mon, 11 Apr 2005 3:14 AM PDT
Historic document back home
http://www.thedailyjournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050411/NEWS01/504110320/1002
BRIDGETON -- One of Cumberland County's first government documents is
back in local hands after extensive restoration. The 131-page book
contains the
meeting minutes of the original Board of Chosen Freeholders.
Muscatine Journal, Mon, 11 Apr 2005 8:10 AM PDT
Better shred than read: Local businesses and government agencies do
their part
to keep identity theft predators at bay
http://www.muscatinejournal.com/articles/2005/04/11/news/doc425a90c798dce976783004.txt
MUSCATINE, Iowa - The National Child Safety Council reports that about
half of all identity thefts are committed by a member of the victim's
family.
Muscatine Police Chief Gary Coderoni agrees.
MAYOR faces 'shredding' inquiry
This is London - London,England,UK
An official investigation has been launched into Ken Livingstone's claim
he held a "shredding week" to avoid revealing sensitive documents. ...
<http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/news/londonnews/articles/17842232?source=Evening%20Standard>
WILL the internet kill the printed book?
L'express.mu - Mauritius
... work involve the "creation, storage, manipulation, use and
dissemination
of information" (Willard and Mychalyn, 1998) such as archivists, record
managers ...
<http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=39644>
HOT Slot|Conserving a civilisation
Hindustan Times - India
Archivists are professionals responsible for the identification,
selection,
protection, organisation, and description of archival records and papers
and ...
<http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5922_1316025,008700010001.htm>
DELETING computer files not enough to ensure privacy
American Medical News - USA
... computer also contained the medical records of two patients, he
said.
"My first thought, of course, was, 'Oh, look at this,' figuring I'd
delete
it," Peterman ...
<http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2005/04/18/bisb0418.htm>
RULES aimed at digital misdeeds lack bite
USA Today - USA
... The law firm was paid $160,000 by ChoicePoint in the first six
months
of 2004 and $280,000 in 2002 and 2003 to influence lawmakers, public
documents
show. ...
<http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/technology/2005-04-11-net-law-cover_x.htm>
LOCAL marriage records to go online: Friends donate hundreds of ...
Poplar Bluff Daily American Republic - Poplar Bluff,MO,USA
... Currently, all of the records have been entered into computer files,
but about 10,000 files, from 1972 to 1975, were corrupted when
transferred
to a different ...
<http://www.darnews.com/articles/2005/04/11/news/news14.txt>
IQBAL Riza ordered shredding of important United Nations record
Daily Times - Pakistan
... already stored in the Central Records Unit, since several of the
documents
found on Riza's computer that were presumably in his chronological files
could not ...
<http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_12-4-2005_pg7_58>
185,000 people's medical data stolen
Silicon.com - UK
... Other recent scares over data security include one at the Bank of
America,
which misplaced backup tapes containing the records of 1.2 million
people,
the bank ...
<http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39129397,00.htm>
LEGAL Eye: Decoding title and mortgage registers
Warsaw Business Journal - Poland
... In Warsaw in particular, the destruction of real property records in
World War II, combined with the confiscation of property both during and
after the War ...
<http://www.wbj.pl/?command=article&id=26430&type=wbj>
IRON Mountain Unveils Industry's First Real-Time Technology Escrow ...
PR Newswire (press release) - USA
... is the leading global service provider of intellectual property
management
services specializing in technology escrow and domain name records
management.
...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=109&STORY=/www/story/04-11-2005/0003383669&EDATE=>
Out-Law.com
Tool can resurrect deleted cookies
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New York Times
Exploring the Right to Share, Mix and Burn
<< http://www.nytimes.com/2005/04/09/arts/music/09nypl.html?>>
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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