RAIN 20080331
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
Future of Hague Archive Debated
Institute for War and Peace Reporting - London,England,UK
By Aleksandar Roknic in Belgrade (TU No 544, 28-Mar-08) The destiny of the
Hague war crimes tribunal's vast archive - much of which is top secret
- was ...
<http://www.iwpr.net/?p=tri&s=f&o=343683&apc_state=henh>
Ontario gives City of Ottawa $20M for new archive
CBC Ottawa - Ontario, Canada
The City of Ottawa is getting $20 million in provincial funding to build an
archive in Nepean starting next year. Work on the $38-million project is
to...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/03/28/ot-archive-080328.html>
University to archive message boards from Commons
Northern Star Online - DeKalb,IL,USA
The boards will be removed this weekend and preserved in the University
Archives. In lieu of the memorial boards, NIU has established a memorial
center ...
<http://www.northernstar.info/article/2874/>
As Businesses Go Paperless, Owners Face New Threats, Decisions
Market Wire (press release) - USA
Although many are still complacent about data storage and backup, small
business owners are becoming more aware of the potential risks of not
backing up ...
<http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release.do?id=837002>
FTC settles with TJX, LexisNexis
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... passwords to access Seisint's Accurint databases containing sensitive
personal information such as driver's license numbers and Social Security
numbers. ...
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http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9072919&intsrc=hm_list
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Revamped city archives get $20M from province
Canada.com <http://canada.com/> - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
Ottawa will receive a $20-million handout from the province to help fund a
new home for the city archives, and Mayor Larry O'Brien guarantees the
money will ...
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=7f9ae6f1-bc92-407e-9fee-630f6307b160&k=61289
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Right place, right time a bonus for
Waterloo Record - Waterloo,Ontario,Canada
It sells to companies which do their own shredding or to firms wanting to
get into the document destruction business. Its clients include Iron
Mountain and ...
<http://news.therecord.com/Business/article/329169>
Easley's e-mail commission off to rocky start
Burlington Times News - Burlington,NC,USA
Mike Easley's administration is breaking public records law by deleting
e-mails said he never sends them in the first place. ``I don't even know
how to cut ...
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http://www.thetimesnews.com/articles/mail_11906___article.html/messages_easley.html
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Stirred by the electronic age
Defiance Crescent News - Defiance,OH,USA
Henry County Sheriff John Nye, recalling state-mandated public records
training that elected officials must attend, has similar thoughts, ...
<http://www.crescent-news.com/news/article/3542412>
Whatever format you use, save those records!
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
... which many people still like to have on file. As a rule, receipts and
other tax documents should be kept a minimum of three years, but it's wise
to hang ...
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http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/business/articles/0328biz-TaxRecords0331-ON.html
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Safe Document Transfer: How to Secure the Paper Chain
CSO - Framingham,MA,USA
Still, corporate espionage is serious business, and depending on the
documents' value, it needs to be addressed. The Mitigation: The best way
to mitigate ...
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http://www.csoonline.com/article/221323/Safe_Document_Transfer_How_to_Secure_the_Paper_Chain
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Letters from China tell history of Asian immigration
Vancouver Courier - BC, Canada
Nosy parkers with a penchant for history might want to go on a guided tour
of the city's archives April 5. There, they'll be able to read translated...
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http://www.canada.com/vancouvercourier/news/story.html?id=b07ceb3b-de85-4c20-87b5-c6dde8f14b03&k=66408
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CNET News
Malware to blame in supermarket data breach
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Electronic Health Records wired for abuse
Boston Herald - United States
Staff members at UCLA's Medical Center are under investigation over
allegations staffers accessed Britney Spears' medical records earlier
this year. ...
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http://news.bostonherald.com/news/opinion/op_ed/view.bg?articleid=1083526&srvc=home&position=rated
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Confidential documents found
Comet 24 - Welwyn Garden City,England,UK
The sensitive information, containing payroll details of 150 NHS staff
members, was found in a street in Stevenage. The documents included
addresses, ...
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http://www.thecomet.net/content/comet/news/story.aspx?brand=CMTOnline&category=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestCMT&itemid=WEED28%20Mar%202008%2017%3A54%3A11%3A270
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Phelps organizes court records
The Newark Advocate - Newark,OH,USA
"The people who have to retrieve files on a regular basis are very excited
to have records organized and easily accessible," she said. ...
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Bill would speed purge of records
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
Lynch said the automatic destruction of these records would allow many more
admitted criminals to declare to a potential employer that they had never
been ...
<http://www.projo.com/news/content/expunge_03-30-08_939GK82_v55.33ccec0.html
>
E-mail expert offers tips on surviving deluge of messages
TCPalm - West Palm Beach,FL,USA
Gerwitz is also an e-mail expert and author of "Where Have All the E-mails
Gone? How something as seemingly benign as White House e-mail can have
freaky ...
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http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2008/mar/28/e-mail-expert-offers-tips-on-surviving-deluge-of/
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Agency Criticized For Lack Of Computerized Record Keeping
Hartford Business - USA
Jaekle said technology has advanced to the point that not having
computerized or automated record keeping is "bad business practice. ...
<http://www.hartfordbusiness.com/news5036.html>
ROBERT S. DAVIS: A nose for history
Cullman Times Online - Cullman,AL,USA
"Later, I was contacted about a position with Wallace State through
someone at the Alabama State Archives, and came for an interview with Dr.
Bailey. ...
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http://www.cullmantimes.com/profile08/local_story_089185908.html?keyword=topstory
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Monongalia County records are going digital: Public can search for ...
Trading Markets (press release) - Los Angeles,CA,USA
Six public access terminals, located along the wall under the office
windows, allow people to electronically search for deeds, liens and
fiduciary records ...
<http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1274207/>
Bank To Offer Digital Storage
Hartford Courant - United States
Recognizing that not all banking customers want a safe deposit box, Wells
Fargo & Co. plans to sell online vaults as a secure and convenient
alternative for ...
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http://www.courant.com/business/hc-wgvirtualvault-ylif0330.artmar30,0,1670900.story
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Illinois, contractors settle fight over Abraham Lincoln ...
Chicago Tribune - United States
SPRINGFIELD - A long and bitter fight about cost overruns at the $145.2
million Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum has ended with the
state ...
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http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-lincoln-museum_31mar31,1,3785282.story
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Rare footage of PMs unearthed in archive
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
Archive director Paolo Cherchi Usai says some very rare material has been
identified during the three-month project with the Australian Prime
Ministers ...
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http://news.smh.com.au/rare-footage-of-pms-unearthed-in-archive/20080331-22lr.html
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New home for BBC costume archive
BBC News - UK
The BBC's archive of coats, dresses and frilly shirts has been bought by
Oscar-winning costume house Angels. It ends a period of uncertainty for the
BBC ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7321453.stm>
In the vault
Providence Journal - Providence,RI,USA
After pulling the files from the cabinets for the following day, Russolino
delivers them to the courtroom. He says his record is supplying files for
more ...
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http://www.projo.com/news/content/laworder_clerk_03-31-08_JJ9GVNQ_v8.27c92ed.html
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Congress Raises Call for Data Safeguards
Wall Street Journal - USA
... when the home of a Veterans Administration employee was burglarized, a
laptop and hard drive that contained the names and Social Security numbers
of 26 ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120692652092175849.html?mod=googlenews_wsj>
Author Karl May's Legacy At Risk: Works Could Be Sold Off
Deutsche Welle - Germany
Volker Wahl, director of the Thueringia State Archive, who has also
researched May's estate, cannot tolerate those sorts of analogies. ...
<http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3214113,00.html>
Bracing for FOI
Cay Compass - Grand Cayman,Cayman Islands
If either party involved in the records request disagrees with the
commissioner's final ruling, the case can be appealed in court. ...
<http://www.caycompass.com/cgi-bin/CFPnews.cgi?ID=1029553>
Intellectual Property Theft: Lessons From Coca-Cola
Workforce Management - Irvine,Ca,USA
By Amy Wu irst the bad news: In the age of high tech, employee
theft--especially when it comes to trade secrets--is more common than
companies would like to ...
<http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/24/49/04/index.php>
Pittsburgh Post Gazette
BNY Mellon informs patrons data exposed
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08089/868919-28.stm>
Wall Street Journal
Why IT Hates the iPhone
Corporate information-technology departments say the phone poses security
risks. But they seem powerless to stop employees from using it.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120647580478363231-email.html>
State's public records aren't so public anymore
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
Today, there are more than 250 exemptions to the Tennessee Public Records
Act. Advocates of open government insist it should not be so simple to
close ...
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http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080331/NEWS02/803310354/1009/NEWS01
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State mum on costs of lost deeds
Business Report - Johannesburg,South Africa
... copies of title deeds and other documents scanned between the two
specified dates to submit them to the registrar of deeds in Pretoria for
rescanning. ...
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http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fArticleId=4328696&fSectionId=552&fSetId=662
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Some of today's internet won't be gone tomorrow
The Star-Ledger - NJ.com - Newark,NJ,USA
Hunter is the principal archivist for a project to build the federal
government's Electronic Records Archive, which would preserve or
"appropriately ...
<http://blog.nj.com/digitallife/2008/03/some_of_todays_internet_wont_b.html>
HP makes Australian buy
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
In a statement today, HP said "the acquisition of Tower will add
electronic records management to HP Software's existing e-discovery and
compliance ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/ED17F738F1A0763DCC25741E000A4BD3>
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