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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
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New litigation rules put IT on the front lines of data access
Procedures for preparedness, data integrity, and retrieval are right
around the corner. Is your enterprise ready?
By Ephraim Schwartz
November 17, 2006
On Dec. 1, when the latest version of the FRCP (Federal Rules of Civil
Procedure) goes into effect, CIOs and their IT departments will find
themselves on the firing line in most major business litigation. [Read
about the cases that started it all.]
The process in which businesses decide which data they are legally
required to save, and which they can safely throw out, is known as
“e-discovery and e-hold.” Until now, businesses have been forced to
make e-discovery and e-hold decisions based on a mixed bag of
individual court decisions, balanced by guesswork by their corporate
legal teams. The new FRCP changes all that, codifying a dangerously
confusing situation.
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/06/11/17/47FEfedrules_1.html>
New York Times
The End User: Copyright Levies Are Debated on Digital Hardware
By VICTORIA SHANNON
Extra charges on hardware, intended to make up for the ease of copying,
are being simultaneously abolished and introduced in various parts of
the world.
<http://www.nytimes.com/iht/2006/11/23/business/IHT-23ptend23.html?>
New York Times
U.S. Copyright Office Issues New Rights
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS
NEW YORK (AP) -- Cell phone owners will be allowed to break software
locks on their handsets in order to use them with competing carriers
under new copyright rules announced Wednesday.
<http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Digital-Copyright.html?>
CHINA BOUGHT BOMBER SECRETS
By Bill Gertz
THE WASHINGTON TIMES
China obtained secret stealth technology used on B-2 bomber engines
from a Hawaii-based spy ring in a compromise U.S. officials say will
allow Beijing to copy or counter a key weapon in the Pentagon's new
strategy against China.
Details of the classified defense technology related to the B-2's
engine exhaust system and its ability to avoid detection by infrared
sensors were sold to Chinese officials by former defense contractor
Noshir S. Gowadia, an Indian-born citizen charged with spying in a
federal indictment released by prosecutors in Hawaii.
<http://www.washingtontimes.com/national/20061123-122450-1979r.htm>
Name of the game
VNUNet.com - UK
... More recently, the focus has been on administering unstructured
data,
using new technologies such as electronic documents and records
management
(EDRM) and ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/analysis/2169380/name-game>
US hits legal turbulence over EU passenger data
ZDNet UK - UK
... The EFF is using the Freedom of Information Act to try and find out
how
EU passenger data transferred to the US is retained, secured, used,
disclosed to other ...
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/security/0,1000000189,39284843,00.htm>
Inside the Beltway
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
Archivist of the United States Allen Weinstein stood at the podium last
year to salute legendary archivist John E. Taylor on the occasion of his
60th ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/national/20061122-121957-2403r.htm>
Actor admits he copied files about Diebold voting machines
Canton Repository (subscription) - Canton,OH,USA
... the family savings and lost two jobs while fighting charges that he
took copies of documents from a law firm where he worked. The records
detailed potential ...
<http://www.cantonrep.com/index.php?ID=320930&Category=9&subCategoryID=>
CITY RESIDENTS who throw away their computers at Coventry's tip ...
Coventry Observer - UK
... "We keep talking about identity fraud and shredding documents, but
there is more information on a computer than a piece of paper. ...
<http://coventry.observertoday.co.uk/news.tvt?_ticket=L175OE2OBHSJ53J94NN
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Met meets data demands
VNUNet.com - UK
... we are implementing an electronic documents and records management
solution, to ... helps minimise duplications of information and assists
compliance with business ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/analysis/2169378/met-meets-demands>
Google As News Archivist
By Mary Ellen Bates
November 22, 2006
Until recently, it was difficult to find news archives on the web more
than 30 days old. That's changed in a big way with the advent of
Google's News Archive search.
Researchers and info pros know that everything is not available for
free on the web, although sometimes it feels that way. One area in
which it is evident that information comes with a price tag is news
from more than a month or two ago. Sure, you can get the latest news
from The New York Times from its web site, but you'll have to pay $4.95
if you want to read anything from more than a few weeks ago. Google
News and other news sites don't offer any greater depth; if the news is
older than a month, you're out of luck.
<http://searchenginewatch.com/showPage.html?page=3624012>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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