The Age of Missing Information
The Bush administration's campaign against openness.
By Steven Aftergood
Posted Thursday, March 17, 2005, at 4:23 AM PT
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CNN
U.S. probes nuclear dump documents
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100TH Birthday for the State Archives
WBOC TV 16 - Salisbury,MD,USA
DOVER (AP)- The Delaware Public Archives is marking its 100th birthday
with a year-long celebration. The agency was created March ...
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DOLE Institute to Offer Behind-the-Scenes Look at Archives and ...
Kansas City infoZine - Kansas City,MO,USA
The Robert J. Dole Institute at the University of Kansas will conduct
public,
behind-the-scenes tours of the former Senator's personal and political
archives. ...
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TOWN hall to sell black archive home
ic SouthLondon.co.uk - UK
... Lambeth council wants to dispose of the Black Cultural Archives
(BCA)
building in Coldharbour Lane, Brixton, as part of a £57million sell-off.
...
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ANNIVERSARY exhibit unveiled
Newszap Delaware - DE,USA
... In 1913, the legislature authorized the hiring of a state archivist
and the building of a "Hall of Records" in the library of the Old State
House. ...
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SNAFU snags DOT member
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... McClinton, who describes his computer skills as "nil to none," said
he didn't know the files existed until the DOT complied with the open
records request. ...
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ERROR admitted in e-mail probe
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
... They said state and federal laws outline who has the authority to
issue
an investigative criminal subpoena for electronic records. ...
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VALLEY doctors creating records database
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... at more than 20 offices in Lehigh and Northampton counties, is
developing
a secure computer network for electronic medical records that ultimately
could be ...
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VIRGINIA Beach Doctor Vanishes, Patients Worry About Their Medical ...
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
Hundreds of patients are wondering what happened to their medical
records
after a Virginia Beach doctor closed his office with, what the patients
say, was no ...
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HACKERS Break in to CSU Records
KPIX-TV 5 - San Francisco,CA,USA
(CBS 5) Thousands of CSU students may be at risk for identity theft
after
hackers broke in to campus computer records. The Chico ...
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£220M hack-heist foiled
Infoconomy - UK
... "A software device would only start when Windows boots up, whereas
a keylogger installed between the keyboard and the computer records any
keystroke," Clark ...
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E-DISCOVER Discovery and Records Management Update
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... produce potentially relevant documents in their files. ... to
preserve
potentially relevant documents where defendant ... mails and other
electronic
records while the ...
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REVOLVING door
Anchorage Daily News - Anchorage,AK,USA
... years ago.". But with e-mail, you can talk to archivists all over
the
world -- quickly. So I thought, "Why not take a chance?". "Hello ...
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LIBRARY considering steps to preserve its historic materials
Clarion News - Clarion,PA,USA
... The consultant also said clippings should be placed into archival
boxes
instead of being thrown into drawers, Vavrek explained. ...
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GOING Legal with E-mail Archiving
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... "In regulated industries, document retention policies are
board-level
policies, and it is a federal crime to destroy documents, including
e-mail,
in ...
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ARCHIVIST sparks nostalgia
Wairarapa Times Age - Masterton,New Zealand
By Noel Preston. Masterton Golf Club is indeed fortunate to have such a
dedicated archivist as Sue Blathwayt. I could spend hours ...
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COMMISSIONERS adopt e-mail policy
Alpine Avalanche - Alpine,TX,USA
... Many counties and cities have adopted a model policy promulgated by
the Texas State Library (TSL) that addresses record retention management
for electronic ...
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FOR Texans, 'sunshine' is right at their fingertips
Houston Chronicle - USA
... distribution in the first place. Rudd is Texas state librarian and
director of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission in Austin.
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ENERGY Firm to Challenge Sfo Documents Seizure
Scotland on Sunday - UK
A UK energy company has won the right to challenge the seizure of
confidential
documents in raids organised up by the Serious Fraud Office following
corruption ...
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TITLE insurer accused of trying to 'cripple' rival
Rocky Mountain News - Denver,CO,USA
... They deleted information from Ticor's files, persuaded fellow
employees
to leave, and stole files and confidential documents, the suit says. ...
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CONNECTED: Apple targeting Web publishers of trade secrets
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... The Internet has made it possible for disgruntled employees and
others
to divulge confidential documents on a global scale, yet have little
worry
about being ...
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SNIA Weighs In on Anti-Terrorism
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... "We're already working with document management groups," he ...
about
storing telecom records, along with other kinds of mandates about data
retention, have been ...
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PRESERVING our links with the past
The Ashburton Guardian - Ashburton,New Zealand
... Ideally, purpose-built archives storing all of the district's
records
would be able to support an archivist. The amount of space ...
<http://www.ashburtonguardian.co.nz/index.asp?articleid=4610>
New York Times, Wed, 16 Mar 2005 6:27 PM PST
How Billions of Pieces of Information Are Bought and Sold
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/business/17privatebox.html
ow much data on how many Americans are they dealing with?" Sen. Richard
C.
Shelby, the Alabama Republican, asked the head of the Federal Trade
Commission
last Thursday, during a hearing on identity theft and the data broker
industry.
Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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