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Make Friends With Metadata
Law Technology News
Ask, "What's metadata?" and you'll probably hear, "It's data about
data." That's a completely accurate answer, but a useless one. Metadata
is the
electronic equivalent of DNA, ballistics and fingerprint evidence, with
the power
to exonerate and incriminate, but even that doesn't answer the question.
Understanding metadata and the evidentiary significance it holds is
becoming an essential lawyer skill. Craig Ball, attorney and e-discovery
specialist, explains the ins and outs of metadata.
<<http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1138183510640>>
Pittsburgh Live, Wed, 25 Jan 2006 9:16 PM PST
Society making history online
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/s_416707.html
The Monroeville Historical Society is taking history to the people by
way of the Internet.
Marquette Tribune, Thu, 26 Jan 2006 2:47 AM PST
Whereas most people who travel to France bring back a postcard or
keychain, a former Marquette professor visiting the
http://www.marquettetribune.org/345375631467548.bsp
According to the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, former history professor
John William Rooney was convicted of conspiracy to transport stolen
property
in 2002, after his friend attempted to auction the treaty off.
AON Consulting Adds High-Tech Investigations, Information Security ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... financial institutions, law firms, governmental agencies, and other
entities with sensitive issues involving theft of trade secrets and
intellectual
property ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
1-25-2006/0004267920&EDATE=>
AMERIPRISE Says Stolen Laptop Had Data on 230,000 People
New York Times - United States
... million consumers exposed to fraud. Others, like those at Bank of
America
and Citigroup, have occurred when data tapes were lost.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/01/26/business/26data.html>
CHOICEPOINT to pay $15 million over data leak
ZDNet - USA
Data broker ChoicePoint will pay a $15 million to settle Federal Trade
Commission charges that its lax procedures violated consumer protection
laws, the agency ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6031629.html>
CERTIFICATE Forgery
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... Tax documents are doctored, title deeds to properties are
fabricated.
Even at the level of political recruitment via elections the same
malfeasance
holds sway. ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200601260438.html>
SENECA historian uncovers details of 'freedom-seeker'
Finger Lakes Times - Geneva,NY,USA
... project's steering committee have been checking census data, deeds,
newspaper articles, petitions, personal letters, diaries, scrapbooks and
other documents. ...
<http://www.fltimes.com/Main.asp?SectionID=38&SubSectionID=121&ArticleID=
10857>
CATALAN archives to be returned
BBC News - UK
... measure". The archives can be transferred to north-eastern Catalonia
while the court considers an appeal from the Salamanca archive. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4651928.stm>
NATIONAL Court lifts the order stopping the Catalan Civil War ...
Typically Spanish - Malaga,Spain
The Seventh Section of the National Court has ordered the lifting of the
temporary ban on the movement of the Catalan Civil War archives from the
National ...
<http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_2224.shtml>
SPANISH court authorises transfer of Catalan war papers
EiTB - Euskadi,Spain
... private citizens' papers. The Salamanca city council says documents
include 176 files that do not belong to the Catalan government. ...
<http://www.eitb24.com/portal/eitb24/noticia/eitb24-politics-spanish-cour
t-authorises
-transfer-of-catalan-war-papers?itemId=D8077&cl=%2Feitb24%2Fpolitica&idio
ma=en>
365,000 lose health files to thief
OregonLive.com - Portland,OR,USA
... No hospital, clinic or health plan records were on the tapes and
disks,
Cagen said. But the stolen files included patients from as far back as
1987. ...
<http://www.oregonlive.com/business/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/business/11
3824771311150.xml&coll=7>
DEPUTY clerk indicted for tampering with records
Waco Tribune Herald - Waco,TX,USA
... records indicate. Later, when parties to the suits inquired about
documents
they should have received from the clerk's office, the missing money and
files were ...
<http://www.wacotrib.com/news/content/news/stories/2006/01/26/20060126wac
grand_jury.html>
DENTAL records dumped on curb in Eastchester
The Journal News.com - Westchester,NY,USA
... that they're medical records," said the 46-year-old, who spied the
materials walking to a gym at 8 am and called The Journal News. Hundreds
of files for Dr ...
<http://www.thejournalnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060126/NEWS02
/601260360/1018>
PATIENTS' information stolen
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... The employee left a laptop case containing 10 computer disks full of
data in his van overnight and reported them stolen the next day. ...
<http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060126/NEWS/60126002>
TRAVEL Security: Protecting Sensitive Information in 'Essential' ...
Stratfor - USA
... Then, should the laptop be stolen, the thief will not get the data
-- which likely is much more valuable to a traveling executive than the
machine itself. ...
<http://www.stratfor.com/products/premium/read_article.php?id=261413>
SMITH leaving Lincoln Library
Lincoln Courier - Lincoln,IL,USA
SPRINGFIELD - Richard Norton Smith is leaving his job running the
Abraham
Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum and the private foundation that
supports it. ...
<http://www.lincolncourier.com/news/06/01/25/f.asp>
PASSWORDS still the weakest link
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
... Services Inc., was convicted of deleting 50,000 customer records,
causing
$100,000 in ... Security and network administrators easily add or delete
users and set ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1
161388,00.html>
EX-TRANSPORTATION CHIEF SHREDDED DOCUMENTS, COURT PAPERS SAY
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... He was indicted on one count of tampering with a witness and 20
counts
of tampering with physical evidence by shredding or altering subpoenaed
documents. ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/sports/horse_racing/kentucky_derby/
13710545.htm>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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