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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Not all government officials treat e-mail records same way
Dallas Morning News - Dallas,TX,USA
Hitting delete when your in-box fills may not be a big deal to the average
e-mail user, but it's different when you work for elected officials
such as
Gov. ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-citwatch_14pro.ART.State.Edition1.cc2e00.html>
Federal Parliament passes data retention and wire tapping legislation
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
The opposition parties uniformly voted against the bill which is also aimed
at transposing EU-guidelines on data retention of phone- and internet data
into ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/99158>
13000 determined to file suit against data retention legislation
Heise Online - Hannover,Germany
Interest in the proposed "mass filing of constitutional complaints" against
last week's passing of the data retention amendments by the Federal
Parliament ...
<http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/99161>
Sending E-mail Into Thin Air
The Ledger - Lakeland,FL,USA
Under federal law, White House officials can't destroy records, including
e-mail, without an OK from the national archivist. But some e-mail between
March ...
<http://www.theledger.com/article/20071119/NEWS/711190347/1036>
Secrecy for Farm Animals
OMB Watch - USA
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved a bill late last month that would
create a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) exemption for records in the
National ...
<http://www.ombwatch.org/article/articleview/4080/1/1?TopicID=1>
Michigan Daily, Wed, 21 Nov 2007 1:16 AM PST
Answers: The sporting historian
http://www.michigandaily.com/news/2007/11/21/TheStatement/Answers.The.Sporting.Historian-3113287.shtml
As an associate archivist at the Bentley Historical Library, Gregory
Kinney spends a lot of his time sifting through old documents from the
Athletic Department. Originally a history major, Kinney studied
library sciences at the University and eventually fell into his
current field of study - a position he says is unique to the
University, an athletic historian.
Security firms condemn HMRC for breach
IT PRO - London,England,UK
... given the technology available," she said, adding that electronic
records systems are working well for Connecting for Health's (CfH) Spine
database, ...
<http://www.itpro.co.uk/news/140811/security-firms-condemn-hmrc-for-breach.html>
Courts letters shredded in error
Tyrone Times - Dungannon,Northern Ireland,UK
"No post has gone missing, no personal details or no confidential documents
have gone astray," stressed a Courts Service spokesman. ...
<http://www.tyronetimes.co.uk/latest-irish-news/Courts-letters-shredded-in-error.3511369.jp>
Police told to delete old records
News Guardian - North Tyneside,England,UK
By ANTHONY MCLEAN NORTHUMBRIA Police has been ordered to delete a
decades-old criminal record because it is "no longer relevant", it has been
revealed. ...
<http://www.newsguardian.co.uk/latest-news/Police-told-to-delete-old.3489131.jp>
Idiots. Utter, unbelievable, jaw-dropping, unpardonable idiots. It ...
Times Online - UK
Even data you delete can be recovered. We cant go back to paper files
stored locally. The genie is out of the bottle and the modern world cannot
function ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/alice_miles/article2910272.ece?ILC
The Bill of Rights finally came back
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
The packing material included records of the General Assembly, says state
archivist George Stevenson in an affidavit. "A number of the documents were
taken ...
<http://www.charlotte.com/opinion/story/372009.html>
Democratic caucus trashed files, sources say
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
By Brad Bumsted and Debra Erdley HARRISBURG -- Internal House Democratic
Caucus documents were shredded as a grand jury investigation was under way
late ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/mostread/s_539041.html>
British government hit by loss of sensitive computer records
Earthtimes - London,UK
London - A massive investigation was under way in Britain Wednesday
following the embarrassing revelation that the government has lost personal
computer ...
<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/145618.html>
British Leader Apologizes After Taxpayer Information Security Breach
Voice of America - USA
... there have been no reported signs of fraudulent banking activity that
could have resulted from the information contained on those revenue
computer records.
<http://www.voanews.com/english/2007-11-21-voa38.cfm>
Data breach in Britain creates potential for massive fraud
International Herald Tribune - France
... US Department of Veterans Affairs last year, which affected the names,
birth dates and social security numbers of 26.5 million former service
personnel. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/11/21/technology/privacy.php>
Disposal Done Right
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
... has an accurate paper trail, [and] we also provide a video copy of the
shredding process so that there is a visual record, as well," Lanzet
says. ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp2947%2F23p47%2F23p47.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True>
How to get 7.5m records on two cds
Channel 4 News - London,UK
It's a lot of data but according to a data storage expert Channel 4 News
online spoke to it is quite possible to store it all on two standard
compact discs ...
<http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/politics/domestic_politics/how+to+get+75m+records+on+two+cds/1076647>
State hires new data firm after student records are lost
KTBS - Shreveport,LA,USA
The Louisiana Student Financial Assistance Commission has approved
contracting with a Houston-based company for electronic and encrypted data
storage that ...
<http://www.ktbs.com/news/State-hires-new-data-firm-after-student-records-are-lost-6686/>
State hires new data firm
2TheAdvocate - Baton Rouge,LA,USA
The more expensive, electronic data storage system offered by Truistic,
which also has a Baton Rouge office, takes the truck delivery component out
of the ...
<http://www.2theadvocate.com/news/11679231.html>
Oklahoma City bombing archive surfaces
United Press International - USA
21 (UPI) -- The Center for American History at the University of Texas
holds a previously overlooked archive detailing the bombing of a federal
building in ...
<http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/11/21/oklahoma_city_bombing_archive_surfaces/9583/>
After Years in Low, Archives Moves Out
CU Columbia Spectator - New York,NY,USA
By David Xia The University Archives and Columbiana Library has completed
its move out of Low Library and is expected to resume its services on
January 2, ...
<http://www.columbiaspectator.com/?q=node/28270>
Obama's State Government Records Missing
Blogger News Network - USA
Even Tim Russert brought up the candidate's state archives to an evasive
Obama. On the November 11th episode of Meet the Press, Russert brought up
the ...
<http://www.bloggernews.net/111844>
Drive for museum gets closer to reality
The Times-Picayune - NOLA.com - New Orleans,LA,USA
... with another $3.9 promised by 2004, little was getting done other than
the accumulation of two truckloads of memorabilia by the Louisiana State
Archives.
<http://www.nola.com/sports/t-p/index.ssf?/base/sports-34/1195626210247670.xml&coll=1>
State bonus investigation a step ahead of shredders
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Some documents, sources said, did not find their way into the legislative
research files and were destroyed separately. Among items destroyed were
computer ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07326/835982-85.stm>
Iron Mountain acquires Xepa Digital
Computer Business Review - UK
By Staff Writer Iron Mountain provides film studios and record labels
preservation services, including long-term archiving, tape inspection and
duplication ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/article_news.asp?guid=D5B23C87-6FBA-4A8A-9908-B2A5EBDE93C9>
mcveigh's lawyer donated large defense file to UT
Houston Chronicle - United States
(c) 2007 AP AUSTIN, Texas -- Stashed in 700 feet of boxes tucked away at
the University of Texas lies a detailed look at the case of Timothy
mcveigh, ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/5320473.html>
Court post bags destroyed after shredding error
Irish Independent - Dublin,Ireland
By Dearbhail mcdonald Legal Affairs Correspondent The shredding was last
night blamed on "human error" and although documents in relation to
significant ...
<http://www.independent.ie/national-news/court-post-bags-destroyed-after-shredding-error-1226485.html>
losing secrets can cost you a lot of money
Canada.com - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... accusing former sales director janine brisbois of "illegal conduct"
when she allegedly engaged in "theft of trade secrets" for the benefit of
her new ...
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/financialpost/story.html?id=aedad537-0c30-44fa-8b9a-a4a2a2918ac8>
iron mountain buys digitizer xepa
CNNMoney.com - USA
new york (associated press) - information storage company iron mountain
inc. said monday it has purchased xepa digital llp, which transfers
outmoded audio ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/apwire/0209e659809900394dc47653daf872ff.htm>
Hudson's Bay archives join world list
Winnipeg Free Press - Winnipeg,Manitoba,Canada
The province announced this morning that the archive, a huge collection
chronicling much of Canada's history and the expansion westward, has been
added to ...
<http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/4081788p-4681156c.html>
£5000 would have made HMRC discs safe
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The Daily Telegraph can reveal the procedure to delete the details - which
would have removed much of the threat of identity fraud - would have cost
just ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/11/23/ncustoms123.xml>
linton presidential library releases files on ufos
FOX News - USA
little rock, arkansas -- in a move sure to provide fodder for conspiracy
theorists, the clinton library withheld e-mails with subject lines like
"x-files" ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,311545,00.html>
Security experts slam government data retention
Siliconrepublic.com - Dublin,Ireland
While DRI sees the British Government's massive loss of sensitive
data as
a reason to repeal existing data retention laws, UK analysts Ovum points
out that ...
<http://www.siliconrepublic.com/news/news.nv?storyid=single9686>
Data protection Lost in the post
Economist - UK
... of Veterans Affairs in America in 2006, and the loss by Bank of America
in 2005 of tapes containing information on 1m American government
employees. ...
<http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10177106>
Can de-dupe data be used for compliance storage?
Techworld.com - London,UK
Say you need to prove that an electronically-stored file or object is the
original document. If it is an electronically-generated document in the
first ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureID=3827&pagtype=all>
activist spams gov. perry to stop shredding practice
abc13.com - Houston,TX,USA
(11/11/07 - austin, tx) - after learning that gov. rick perry has his staff
destroy e-mail records after seven days, a political activist decided this
week ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=state&id=5754873>
Leader: It's time for a data breach disclosure law
Silicon.com - UK
The Prime Minister's decision to allow the Information Commissioner to make
spot checks on data storage and security at government departments is
welcome ...
<http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39169239,00.htm>
Inland Revenue's Loss of Data Confirms Worldwide Lack of Privacy
Daily Reckoning - Australian Edition - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
Investment funds do not hold pieces of paper, but computer records. Bankers
transfer huge sums of money by computer. Politicians fight elections by
seeking ...
<http://www.dailyreckoning.com.au/inland-revenue/2007/11/23/>
Data Leak in Britain Affects 25 Million
New York Times - United States
Last year, a computer and detachable hard drive with the names, birth dates
and Social Security numbers of 26.5 million veterans and military personnel
was ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/22/world/europe/22data.html?ref=europe>
The Telegraph
Ministers 'ignored data security warnings'
<http://tinyurl.com/ytsg9z>
Computer Weekly
Missing child benefit CDs: what went wrong, and why it would have
carried on regardless
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2007/11/21/228217/missing-child-benefit-cds-what-went-wrong-and-why-it-would-have-carried-on.htm>
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Peter Kurilecz CRM CA
Richmond, Va
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