RAIN 060313
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Compliance Spending to Reach $27.3B in 2006
SmartPros Accounting - USA
... as ranked by the survey participants -- Securities and Exchange 
Commission,
customer compliance, document/record retention requirements, 
manufacturing
<http://accounting.smartpros.com/x52151.xml>

8,800 deleted e-mails prompts prove into San Diego's document ...
North County Times - Escondido,CA,USA
SAN DIEGO -- An investigation was initiated Friday into the city's 
document
retention practices after it was learned that about 8,800 e-mails from
former San ...
<http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2006/03/11/news/sandiego/16_33_463_10_06
.txt>

Congress, FCC: Carriers Must Get CPNI Act in Order!
Billing World - Westminster,CO,USA
... documentation to a telephone service provider knowing that the 
document
is false ... encryption by carriers of stored CPNI; limits on data 
retention;
requiring the ...
<http://www.billingworld.com/archive-detail.cfm?archiveId=7741>

Governments not net-ready
Australian IT - Australia
... More than 56 per cent of respondents report that there are no 
records
management systems in place to assist with the retrieval of information.
<http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,18421788%5E15441%5E%5Enb
v%5E15306-15319,00.html>

Accurate records management programme is the only perfect weapon ...
Awareness Times - Freetown,Sierra Leone
Records and Records Management in Sierra Leone is a total neglected area
of the Public Sector Reform, despite the fact that many Public Servants
and Public ...
<http://news.sl/drwebsite/publish/article_20051894.shtml>

Accurate Records Management Programme: the Perfect Weapon to ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
Records management in Sierra Leone is a totally neglected area of the 
Public
Sector Reform, despite the fact that many Public Servants and Public 
Sector
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200603130745.html>


Net blows CIA agents cover
Register - London,England,UK
... information. Large US data aggregators, such as ChoicePoint and 
Lexis
Nexis, were the subject of consumer security breaches last year. ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/03/13/ispy/>

Backing up files at home a no-brainer for HP exec
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... hard-earned money from babysitting gigs. But because the iTunes 
library
was stored on her laptop, which could crash or be stolen. ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/columnists/14086817.htm>


NARA goes easy on ?transitory? e-records
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
... In a notice last month, NARA said agencies can store transitory 
electronic
records?those with a shelf life of 180 days or less?on their e-mail
systems ...
<http://www.gcn.com/print/25_5/40015-1.html>

Councilwoman disagrees with plan to curb e-mail access
MSNBC - USA
... live until the mayor's office develops a policy to comply with 
public
records requests for the e-mails and other related electronic records,
spokeswoman Susie ...
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/11805452/>

New freeware takes some mystery out of rogue files
SearchSecurity.com - Needham,MA,USA
... terabyte a month. That represents 25 million unique files and 250 
million
file records, the company said Monday. That data is culled ...
<http://searchsecurity.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid14_gci1
172577,00.html>

Hiring of private audit firms puts records off limits
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
COLUMBUS, Ohio - A company hired to examine the state's unorthodox $50
million investment in rare coins doesn't have to make its files public
because state law ...
<http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/14089137.htm>

Need info? It may be easier than you think.
 Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
... and down some stairs, but once we got the right people, we got the
files," Ms. Barker ... Joan Debus of Shady Side also used land records
to see where a pipe was ...
<http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2006/03_13-47/TOP>

Patient records found on road
Scotsman - United Kingdom
... a small quantity of confidential information in relation to client
records was placed ... the police and the data protection information
officer about the files. ...
<http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=377432006>

Bill looks to digitize court records
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... world," Chancery Clerk Tim Kellar said. "We scanned files into a 
system
and can pull up records (on the computer) and print them out.". ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/NEWS010
504/603130351/1038>

No confidential or personal information in Police files
New Zealand Police - New Zealand
"The information is up to six years out of date and records names of 
officers,
in some cases it ... There is no personal or confidential information
on the files.". ...
<http://www.police.govt.nz/news/release/2338.php>

Register of Deeds fills genealogy-hunters' needs
Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA
... The Brown County Register of Deeds records documents including real
estate transactions, property liens and mortgages and vital records on
births, deaths ...
<http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060313/
GPG0101/603130538/1207/GPGnews>

Networking: Storage blues
United Press International - USA
... But now, with government regulators compelling the retention of many
new records, storage requirements are increasing once again. ...
<http://www.upi.com/Hi-Tech/view.php?StoryID=20060313-103146-9097r>

Hack Swipes Citibank PINs
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... Bank of America, Washington Mutual, and Wells Fargo in recent weeks
also have shut down PIN ... In May, a box of unencrypted tapes with 
information
on 3.9 million ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/security/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1815
03144&subSection=Cybercrime>


Court blocks state's bid to see Beacon's computer records
Providence Journal (subscription) - Providence,RI,USA
The judge ruled the subpoena to the state's donimate workers' 
compensation
insurer "overbroad, overreaching, unduly burdensome and entirely 
unreasonable.".
<http://www.projo.com/news/content/projo_20060310_beacon10.9aa0a73.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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