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Nevada Appeal, Wed, 01 Jun 2005 4:12 AM PDT
Former state librarian inducted into Archives and Records hall of fame
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050601/NEWS/106010022/-1/rss02
Joan Kerschner-Tinker can't race an Indy car, and she can't smoke the
defense at the three-point line.  But she was inducted into the hall of
fame.

KXAN 36 Austin, Tue, 31 May 2005 10:35 PM PDT
Watergate Papers Here In Austin
http://www.kxan.com/global/story.asp?s=3414529
Reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein chose Austin and the
University of Texas to be the home to their Watergate papers.

SPEED camera team broke Freedom of Information law
Out-Law.com - UK
... public authorities, with a limited number of narrowly drawn
exemptions to protect sensitive information, and follows the Freedom of
Information Act, passed in ...
<http://www.out-law.com/php/page.php?page_id=speedcamerateambr1117637055&area=news>

PAPER shredding outfit has appetite for destruction
Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA
Since 1991, his Charleston-based company, Archive Services Inc., has
housed thousands of boxes of records its East End warehouse for
companies that have run ...
<http://wvgazette.com/section/People/200505317>

CLERKS restrict access to some court records
Business Gazette - Gaithersburg,MD,USA
... Court of Appeals' new rules on public access to court records are
causing ... sexual assault, two counts of second-degree assault,
malicious destruction of property ...
<http://www.gazette.net/200522/montgomerycty/county/277583-1.html>

HIGH Court Blesses Document Policies in Andersen Case
Texas Lawyer (subscription) - TX,USA
... Court ruled unanimously Tuesday that the accounting firm had been
wrongly convicted for advising employees to abide by its
document-retention policies in the ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1117530313849>

THE Compliance Imperative: Managing Record Retention in a Rapidly ...
DMReview.com - New York,NY,USA
... article. James is a director and Rosalind is a manager in
PricewaterhouseCoopers'
Information and Document Retention Services Practice. ...
<http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1028738>

Bankrate.com
via Yahoo! Finance, Wed, 01 Jun 2005 3:00 AM PDT
Should you shred? http://biz.yahoo.com/brn/050601/16354.html?.v=1
Businesses are now required to destroy discarded customer records.
Consumers, take heed.

The Age, Wed, 01 Jun 2005 1:39 AM PDT
Telstra denies breaching privacy
http://www.theage.com.au/news/Business/Telstra-denies-breaching-privacy/2005/06/01/1117568254425.html
Telstra has denied it had breached the privacy of an employee by
monitoring her personal phone calls. Labor backbencher Bob Sercombe
told parliament
that a Telstra manager had listened in to private telephone calls made
by
Kimberly Sund and even documented the topics of her conversations.

MACOMB clerk helps digitize the county's records
DetNews.com - Detroit,MI,USA
... said her team of volunteers has already indexed thousands of records
for the library, which should make it easy when it comes time to index
the county's records ...
<http://www.detnews.com/2005/macomb/0506/01/B05-199562.htm>

STOLEN documents showed up on eBay
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... The property in this case is old county records that date between
1811
and 1826 and that should be shelved in a courthouse basement storage
room.
...<http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/trib/regional/s_339685.html>

HOSPITAL records debated
San Jose Mercury News - San Jose,CA,USA
... operate. When you look at the long list of institutions that don't
have these electronic records, they are able to function.''. County ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/11786150.htm>

NATIONAL Archives Consults on EDRMS Requirements
eGov monitor - London,UK
The National Archives is seeking input on scoping out a revised version
of MoReq - the pan-European model specification of requirements for
Electronic
Records ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/1162>

A tomb of rare volumes
Kolkata Newsline - New Delhi,India
... The Central Library prides itself on its collection of old
manuscripts.
The oldest book in its archives, A Worlde of Wordes by John Florio,
dates
back to 1598. ...
<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=132123>

UNENCRYPTED Backups Can Be Worse than Worthless
ADT Magazine - USA
... The Time Warner incident came just weeks after Bank of America
reported
losing backup tapes containing financial information about more than 1.2
million ...
<http://www.adtmag.com/article.asp?id=11251>

BUSINESSES Must Now Destroy Consumer Credit Information
KSDK - St. Louis,MO,USA
... "There is no reason that a stack of customer files containing credit
... own document destruction policies or by contracting with a document
shredding company or ...
<http://www.ksdk.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=80103>

NEW rule to require shreddingPublished: Wednesday, June 01, 2005 ...
Elkhart Truth - Elkhart,IN,USA
... measures" when disposing of the documents or electronic files. It
does
not impose specific methods but does provide the examples of shredding
papers or ...
<http://www.etruth.com/news/story/349361/>

FIVE Steps to FACTA Compliance Guidelines Every Business Should ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... program outlining how to maintain and shred documents. An example of
such a policy is posted to the www.ShredNations.com website. 3. Schedule
your Shredding. ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050601/law011.html?.v=12>

GOVERNMENT Trying to Stop Identity Theft
WCAV - Charlottesville,VA,USA
... Kevin Martin takes his shredding business on the road. ... The
customer
can stand here and watch their documents actually being destroyed," said
Martin.
<http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/1595356.html>


WHITE-COLLAR Prosecutions May Face Higher Hurdle
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... was flawed because the judge wrongly instructed the jury that the
firm could be found guilty even if it believed its conduct in shredding
documents was lawful. ...
<http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-andersen1jun01,0,5598243.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

NEW law puts data-disposal pros in demand
Minneapolis Star Tribune (subscription) - MN,USA
When Steve Solbrack got some advertising from Document Destruction
Service early this year, he didn't feed it into the shredder. ...
<http://www.startribune.com/stories/535/5433021.html>

. It's the law
phillyburbs.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... their information," said Drew Friedman, operations manager for
Shred One Security Corp., a Huntingdon Valley company that provides
secure document destruction. ...
<http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/147-06012005-496662.html>

BUSTED: Israelis Arrested For Industrial Espionage
Security Pronews - Lexington,KY,USA
... Israel is expected to ask for extradition. Some spy software
versions posed as a package of confidential documents delivered through
email....
<http://www.securitypronews.com/news/securitynews/spn-45-20050601BustedIsraelisArrestedForIndustrialEspionage.html>

SPY Software Code Had Design Flaw
ABC News - USA
... key suspect. Here's how it worked: Some victims received e-mails
that appeared to include a packet of confidential documents. But ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=810942>

DECISION could end logjam on medical records
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
The state attorney general will ask a judge today to approve an order
that outlines a process for handling the medical records at an
out-of-business diagnostic ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05152/513483.stm>


STATES Keep Watchful Eye on Personal-Data Firms
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
... Here's what you do if you find out your identity might have been
stolen.A number of commercial data aggregators -- companies like
ChoicePoint
Inc.
...<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/06/01/AR2005060100359.html>

New York Times
Analysis: Reversal of Andersen Conviction
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/01/business/01assess.html?>

ComputerWorld
Laptop with credit card info for 80,000 DOJ workers stolen
It was taken from a Virginia travel agency three weeks ago
<http://www.computerworld.com/governmenttopics/government/legalissues/story/0,10801,102146,00.html?from=story%5Fkc>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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