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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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STRICT liability for data breaches?
Register - London,England,UK
Comment A recent case involving a stolen laptop containing 550,000
people's
full credit information sheds new night on what "reasonable" protections
a company ...
<http://www.channelregister.co.uk/2006/02/22/data_breach_liaibility/>
10 classic clueless-user stories
ZDNet.com.au - Australia
... I finally got the connection when the new "retention policy" was
published.
The company lawyers who wrote it had a line in the document that
excluded
<http://www.zdnet.com.au/jobs/resources/soa/10_classic_clueless_user_stor
ies/0,2000056675,39239390,00.htm>
LAWMAKERS' Role in Data Breaches Debated
PC Magazine - USA
... of corporate data breaches spurred the Federal Trade Commission to
impose the largest civil fine in its history--$15 million on
ChoicePoint--and
prompted ...
<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,1895,1930097,00.asp>
PRIVATELY funded National Archives building progressing slowly
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
The construction of a two-storey building, funded by a private investor
to house the National Archives on Homestretch Avenue has been
progressing
slowly. ...
<http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=45511802>
RainbowNetwork.com, Wed, 22 Feb 2006 4:21 AM PST
Gay History Comes Out
http://www.rainbownetwork.com/News/detail.asp?iData=25269&iCat=29&iChanne
l=2&nChannel=News
Gay history is finally coming out of the closet as The National
Archives launches a pilot project to develop a new online resource on
LGBT
history, including photographic evidence of Londonā?Ts past underground
gay
culture.
Monroe Evening News, Wed, 22 Feb 2006 9:05 AM PST
Stacks of county records grow, overtaking storage space
http://www.monroenews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS01/1022
20002/-1/NEWS
When Monroe County Clerk Geri Allen says the work is piling up around
the office, itā?Ts not just a colorful exaggeration. She literally means
piling. "I have files sitting on the floor again," said Ms. Allen.
"There have
been people stumbling on them, which, of course, we are concerned with."
Portsmouth Herald, Wed, 22 Feb 2006 5:55 AM PST
New system for court records advised
http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/02222006/news/89029.htm
CONCORD - Some state court records should be available to the public on
the Internet, some should be public only at courthouses, and information
that is confidential now should remain that way, a task force
recommended
Tuesday.
WEDNESDAYS with Wade: Save Oswald
Jim Hill Media.com - New Boston,NH,USA
... the Disney film archivist, was able to get an original 16mm copy
from
a private collector and also located a 35mm print he found in another
archive and was ...
<http://www.jimhillmedia.com/mb/articles/showarticle.php?ID=1859>
EU ministers approve data retention directive in controversial ...
JURIST - USA
... JURIST] EU justice and interior ministers meeting in Brussels
Tuesday
approved [European Council proceedings, PDF] a controversial data
retention
directive [DOC ...
<http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2006/02/eu-ministers-approve-data-
retention.php>
UNCOVERING your data's DNA
ComputerWorld - USA
... Whether you're focused on information life-cycle management, tiered
storage or just building good storage management practices, a critical
element is to ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,108886,00
.html>
THE National Archives Responds to Reclassification of Documents
U.S. Newswire (press release) - Washington,DC,USA
22 /US Newswire/ -- As part of an ongoing review of the reclassification
of documents at the National Archives, Archivist of the United States
Allen Weinstein ...
<http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=61344>
STILL leading by example
Baltimore Sun - United States
... the general's speech draft is a well-deserved coup for State
Archivist
Edward C ... If it had gone to the National Archives in today's
super-secret
environment ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com
/news/opinion/bal-ed.washington22feb22,0,2387144.story?coll=bal-opinion-h
eadlines>
INFORMATION lifecycle management, from A to Z
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... In Part 1 of this series we introduced information lifecycle
management
(ILM), unstructured and structured information, and the importance of
context (see ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTIC
LE_ID=248668&VERSION_NUM=2&p=23>
ARCHIVING tools relieve database bloat
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... is simple: End users can realize better database performance and
storage
cost savings by taking the concept of information lifecycle management
(ILM) and ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTIC
LE_ID=248658&VERSION_NUM=2&p=23>
DATA protection over WANs: Recovery and restoration, Part 3
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... Traditionally this concept has been known as hierarchical storage
management
(HSM), or more recently information lifecycle management (ILM). ...
<http://www.infostor.com
/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTICLE_ID=248669&VERSION_NUM
=2&p=23>
WALLACE and CBS archives deposited at University of Michigan
U of M News Service (press release) - Ann Arbor,MI,USA
ANN ARBOR, Mich.--The University of Michigan Bentley Library welcomes a
major collection of papers from legendary journalist and UM alumnus Mike
Wallace ...
<http://www.umich.edu/news/?Releases/2006/Feb06/r022206a >
FILES for Seaside Constructions in Bulgaria Missing
Sofia News Agency - Bulgaria
The records for several seaside construction sites from ... from the
Varna
district municipality files, media reported. Some of the documents
present
have not been ...
<http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=59550>
CITGO agrees to share Venezuela oil files
Bryan College Station Eagle - TX, United States
... to cooperate with the House Energy chairman's request for documents
on Venezuela's ... and investigations, last week asked Citgo to provide
all records about the ...
< http://www.theeagle.com/stories/022206/business_20060222039.php>
WOMAN helped document WWII veterans' memories
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
... The former archivist for the Rancho Santa Fe Historical Society
created
a World War II oral history project to record veterans' memories. ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20060222-9999-m1m22tfrsf.
html>
TURNING BACK THE YEARS THE HI-TECH WAY
Bath Chronicle - Bath,England,UK
... City archivist, Colin Johnston, added: "The new database is an
invaluable
source of information and will make finding articles much easier.". ...
<http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=163490&command=displa
yContent&sourceNode=163316&contentPK =14056464&folderPk=89126>
DON'T delete e-mail from records law
Indianapolis Star - United States
... and local governments. Ryan Nees' court victory is a prime example
of why Indiana's open records law is essential. It protects ordinary ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/OPINION/6022
20322/1002>
HOUSE approves open records bill
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
MONTPELIER -- The House gave final approval Tuesday to a bill aimed at
reducing government secrecy. Despite controversy leading ...
<http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS/60222
0304/1003/NEWS02>
OPEN meetings, records violations should merit more than token ...
Kingsport Times News - Kingsport,TN,USA
... But if state lawmakers really want to drive home the importance of
complying with open meetings and open records laws, why not make the
offenders
forfeit ...
<http://www.timesnews.net/editorialArticle.dna?_StoryID=3603757>
LOTTERY tips off companies to records request
DesMoinesRegister.com - Des Moines,IA,USA
... making money from TouchPlay machines that The Des Moines Register
has
sought access to financial information about the devices under Iowa's
Open Records law. ...
<http://desmoinesregister.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS10/
602220353/1001/NEWS10>
WESTCHESTER -- County Clerk Tim Idoni is taking steps to keep ...
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... filed documents as well. "We don't want to block the use of public
documents. We just want them to be accessed properly," he said.
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060222/NEWS02
/602220326/1018/NEWS02>
MASSACHUSETTS man brings open standards campaign to Europe
PC Pro - UK
The erstwhile CIO of the state of Massachusetts has taken his open
standards
campaign to Europe, lobbying Euro MPs to ensure that public documents
are not tied ...
<http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/83994/massachusetts-man-brings-open-standard
s-campaign-to-europe.html>
KOKUA Line
Honolulu Star-Bulletin - Honolulu,HI,USA
... Because Social Security numbers have been an "identifier for years
and years and years," they are "on a lot of public documents and a lot
of private businesses ...
<http://starbulletin.com/2006/02/22/news/kokualine.html>
UNION County makes deeds available online
Milton Daily Standard - Milton,PA,USA
LEWISBURG -- Union County Recorder of Deeds Lorraine M. Lenhart recently
announced that ... general public the capability to view and print
documents
seven days a ...
<http://www.standard-journal.com/articles/2006/02/22/news/news5.txt>
COMPUTER Danger: how to completely clean your hard drive
WSLS.com - Roanoke,VA,USA
It's becoming a familiar sound in our homes... shredding paper... as we
... computer.". Kowalik used a program to recover the deleted files. I
...
<http://www.wsls.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=WSLS%2FMGArticle%2FSLS_Ba
sicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1137834247313&path=!news!localnews>
HOW Are Top Secret Document Discarded?
Xtvworld (press release) - India
... 11th, a new security level has been introduced. The level 6 is now
the only shredder approved for shredding top-secret documents. ...
<http://press.xtvworld.com/article9722.html>
TO encrypt or not to encrypt
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... from storage vendors that exploit the issue of lost tapes, which
seemed
to be an epidemic last year (eg, Citigroup, Ameritrade, Bank of America,
Time Warner ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&ARTIC
LE_ID=248656&VERSION_NUM=2&p=23>
EVER talked to SCO? - asks IBM
Register - London,England,UK
... within 30 days, it emerged during the Burst case. See How key
Microsoft
legal emails 'autodestruct'. "Do not be foolish," Windows chief Jim
Allchin
told staff ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/02/23/ibm_sco_discovery_subpoenas/>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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