RAIN 20080324
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to
records and archives management.
White House Official Tells Judge Searching for Missing Emails ...
OpEdNews - Newtown,PA,USA
... relevant e-mail information would create an 'awfully expensive needle
to justify searching a haystack,'" a separate court filing the White
House made ...
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http://www.opednews.com/articles/genera_jason_le_080322_white_house_official.htm
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White House: Email Recovery Plan 'Fruitless'
AOL News Newsbloggers - Dulles,VA,USA
In January, The Washington Post pointed out that President Bush's White
House "scrapped a custom archiving system that the Clinton administration
had ...
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http://news.aol.com/political-machine/2008/03/22/white-house-email-recovery-plan-fruitless/
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Use Caution When Accessing Newly Available Army Records
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
The digital enlistment records include the Women's Army Auxiliary Corps and
are available through the National Archive's Web site. ...
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http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/mar/23/tr-use-caution-when-accessing-newly-available-army/
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German court tightens up ISP, phone data retention rules
Ars Technica - Boston,MA,USA
In the most recent ruling, made today in Karlsruhe, the Constitutional Court
found that Germany's recent data retention directive targeting ISPs and ...
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http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20080319-german-court-tightens-up-isp-phone-data-retention-rules.html
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Business FYI: ARMA to host first Shred Day April 5
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA
By Staff Reports The Association of Records Managers and Administrators
Tulsa and Iron Mountain Inc. will host the first Shred Day from 10 am
to 2
pm April ...
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http://www.tulsaworld.com/business/article.aspx?articleID=20080322_5_E3_spanc57342
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Records rules may be put off
Tulsa World - Tulsa,OK,USA
By OMER GILLHAM World Staff Writer OKLAHOMA CITY -- Feeling the heat over
its new rules to redact public records, the Oklahoma Supreme Court may put
off ...
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AT THE LIBRARY: Images of an American icon on display
Anderson Herald Bulletin - Anderson,IN,USA
The original glass negatives passed through several hands after the
photographer's death and eventually were sold to the Smithsonian in 1933.
<http://www.theheraldbulletin.com/columns/local_story_082203812.html>
Inside the hunt for the City's bank raiders
Guardian - UK
... his troops - who can insist on examining tapes of phone conversations
and computer records - will be able to strike the fear of god into the
City. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2008/mar/23/creditcrunch.banking1>
Movement away from paper -- and to computers -- faces many challenges
Worcester Telegram - Worcester,MA,USA
But if a patient heads to a doctor or hospital unrelated to the Fallon
Clinic, there's no guarantee her electronic records will make the trip,
too. ...
<http://www.telegram.com/article/20080323/NEWS/803230321/>
Bill to tell apartheid-era secrets
Independent Online - Cape Town,South Africa
... opening a treasure trove of information about the country's past -
despite the destruction of some key state records by the National Party
government. ...
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http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=13&art_id=vn20080323081845621C753160
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White House Says Hard Drives Were Destroyed
Slashdot - USA
"If, in fact, the bulk of the White House email records are now stored in
bundles of rotting PST files, all at or above their maximum safe
load-level, ...
<http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/03/23/0053215>
HR Data Breaches Can Leave Holes in Corporate Pockets
Workforce Management - Irvine,Ca,USA
In that case, computer equipment with data including names, Social Security
numbers and dates of birth for as many as 26.5 million veterans and other
...<http://www.workforce.com/archive/feature/25/37/65/index.php>
MPs' panel has DND's discarded blueprints in its sights
Canada.com <http://canada.com/> - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
None of documents was marked secret or classified, but Defence officials
have acknowledged the seriousness of the security breach. ...
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http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=007806b5-e26f-4b11-8ce8-00141aead5a0&k=23977
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WEEKEND INTERVIEW WITH MARGARET HOUGHTON
Hamilton Spectator - Hamilton,ON,Canada
... Library houses the newly named Local History and Archives department,
home to a gold mine of information. Its gatekeeper is archivist Margaret
Houghton, ...
<http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/343217>
UNESCO
UNESCO saves rare archives in Mongolia
<http://tinyurl.com/yo9a3g>
Open-record requests can take time, money
El Paso Times - El Paso,TX,USA
The district, he said, has a policy that outlines costs associated with
obtaining public records. The policy is applied uniformly to all requests,
he said. ...
<http://www.elpasotimes.com/news/ci_8673716>
Millions of stored items reveal county's colorful history
Los Angeles Daily News - Los Angeles,CA,USA
The documents are just a few of the millions of historical objects,
documents, records, books, photographs, vehicles, artwork and items of
natural and ...
<http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8673547>
Prosecutor files criminal charges against Detroit mayor, former aide
USA Today - USA
Worthy says some documents sought as part of her probe have been "lost or
destroyed." "Our investigation has led to other potential defendants, ...
<http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2008/03/prosecutor-deci.html>
Digital images often can be restored; backup can avert heartache
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
Another worthy option is buying a digital storage device; some can hold as
many images as computer hard drives. Anyone with access to the Internet can
...
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http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/03/24/2008-03-24_digital_images_often_can_be_restored_bac.html
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Speaker to discuss archives, democracy
UConn Advance - Storrs,CT,USA
by Jennifer Huber - March 24, 2008 Professor Allen Weinstein, the ninth
Archivist of the United States, will deliver the RBS Greenwich Capital
Lecture, ...
<http://www.advance.uconn.edu/2008/080324/08032403.htm>
Missouri death certificates become research tools
Missourinet.com <http://missourinet.com/> - Jefferson City,MO,USA
Patsy Luebbert, senior reference archivist, says these death certificates
are an important research tool for family historians. "They give cause of
death: ...
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http://www.missourinet.com/gestalt/go.cfm?objectid=E16EA0E5-02E4-63E8-DE556F1F281E6374
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Looking at Obama's File Gets Two Fired
Washington Post - United States
By Glenn Kessler The State Department said last night that it had fired two
contract employees and disciplined a third for accessing Sen. ...
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/03/20/AR2008032003422.html?hpid=moreheadlines
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Blunt provides Nixon investigators records on media requests
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
Matt Blunt's office has provided attorney general's investigators with
almost 3000 pages of documents detailing open-records requests made by the
media, ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/544585.html>
County e-mail policy varies by department
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
That document, Retention Schedule for Records Common to All Local
Governments, was last updated in 1995, well before e-mail had become as
ubiquitous as it ...
<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2008/03/24/news/news02.txt>
Is Iron Mountain Just a Pile of Paper?
Seeking Alpha - New York,NY,USA
We released a short report to subscribers last week on Iron Mountain (IRM).
Our colleagues over at New Constructs identified Iron Mountain as a
dangerous ...
<http://seekingalpha.com/article/69642-is-iron-mountain-just-a-pile-of-paper
>
White House Destroyed Hard Drives That May Have Contained Missing ...
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Given the dictates of the Federal Records Act, which governs the
preservation of White House email, the administration's destruction of the
hard drives is ...
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http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2008/03/7738_white_house_des.html
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Developing global data privacy policies for HR data (part 1)
WTN News - Madison,WI,USA
Thus names, governmental identification numbers, employee IDs, IP addresses,
email addresses, DNA samples, and collections of descriptive information all
...<http://wistechnology.com/articles/4633/>
City destroyed documents, judge told in contempt hearing
Detroit Free Press - United States
A prosecutor told a judge this morning that the City of Detroit has
destroyed documents sought in a criminal probe of Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick
and his former ...
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http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080324/NEWS01/80324021/1001/NEWS
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Library of Congress tests Web 2.0 photo archive
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Officials are hoping people can help the library gather more relevant facts
and data about the images and build a richer archive. That goal is
accomplished ...
<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152025-1.html>
White House Says E-mail Forensics Too Costly
InternetNews.com - USA
The National Security Archive, along with left-leaning advocacy group
Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington (CREW), requested a
temporary ...
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http://www.internetnews.com/storage/article.php/3736331/White+House+Says+Email+Forensics+Too+Costly.htm
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White House: Don't look on new computers for old e-mail
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
George Washington University's National Security Archive, one of the
plaintiffs, has said the court should extend its preservation order to
force the White ...
<http://www.fcw.com/online/news/152026-1.html>
Medical Records For 2500 Study Participants Are Stolen
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
Only after a laptop is stolen from the trunk of a car owned by a researcher
at the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (NHLBI), does this
organization ...
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http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2008/03/medical_records.html
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Patient files found in vacant Yorkton office space
Canada.com <http://canada.com/> - Hamilton,Ontario,Canada
... under the Health Information Protection Act (HIPA) will be to determine
who was last in charge of the files and how the records came to be
abandoned. ...
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http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0d48aa1d-4c9a-4af9-bfaf-a14e48124dc9&k=29974
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Our Favorite File-and-Folder Backup Tools
PC Magazine - USA
With these programs, I typically backup my entire My Documents folder and
all its subfolders, plus a clutch of other folders where I keep files like
...<http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2278661,00.asp>
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