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4/20/2006 Criminals Use Construction Crane to Steal Tax Inspectors'
Archives
A whole railway container of archive papers was stolen from the Federal
Tax
Service office in the centre of Moscow early Wednesday, RBC news
reported.
MosNews
http://www.mosnews.com/news/2006/04/20/cranethieves.shtml
Recovering Hard Drives
Law Technology News
Whether the risk is hurricane, earthquake, fire, flood, terrorism,
theft or a disgruntled IT person, no firm is beyond disaster's reach.
Hurricane
Katrina taught law firms in New Orleans the importance of planning for
data
disasters. A surprising amount of data was recovered from firms' hard
drives after
the flooding, but it's a painstaking process. Attorney and forensics
guru
Craig Ball explains how to maximize the chances of recovery and
outlines an IT
emergency plan for the future.
http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1145362823516
Library exceeds expectations
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
SPRINGFIELD - One year after President Bush helped open its doors, the
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum is exceeding its
director's
expectations ...
<http://www.pantagraph.com/articles/2006/04/19/news/112118.txt>
Woggles of yesteryear
Norwich Evening News - Norwich,England,UK
... will be among a collection of Scouting memorabilia when a new
archive
centre opens ... Peter Dearn, Scout archivist from Wensum Valley Close
in Hellesdon, has been ...
<http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&ca
tegory=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED20%20Apr%202006%201
0%3A12%3A57%3A410>
Apple argues for blogger records
ZDNet - USA
SAN JOSE, Calif.--Apple Computer faced tough questioning Thursday in its
bid to gain access to electronic records of Mac enthusiast sites that
published leaked ...
<http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1040_22-6063265.html>
Workers' records found at landfill
WALB-TV - Albany,GA,USA
... Shredding documents which include an employees personal information
is easy, fast-- and by the way-- it's the law. "Not destroying ...
<http://www.walb.com/Global/story.asp?S=4791867&nav=5kZQ>
Police department creating space by shredding old documents
Northwest Arkansas Times - Fayetteville,AR,USA
... Fayetteville City Council gave the police department permission to
shred old documents. ... contracted with Shred Max and I already started
shredding some things ...
<http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/39807/>
Lockheed Martin accuses competitor of data theft
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
... alleges, there is evidence of efforts to skew the playing field
through
the wrongful access to and use of Lockheed Martin trade secrets and
proprietary
<http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/business/14386056.htm>
Appellate Judges Question Apple's Trade Secrets Claim
The Mac Observer - USA
... In response to the question, attorney George Riley called the
release
of this information to a Web site a "very serious theft," the same
argument
made by Apple ...
<http://www.macobserver.com/article/2006/04/20.11.shtml>
Judges press Apple on effort to get blogger's source
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... Apple, meanwhile, argued again today that the theft and distribution
of trade secrets overrides any journalistic shield against divulging
sources.
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14389923.htm>
Comply or else, data watchdog tells EU
EurActiv.com - Brussels,Belgium
At the presentation of his annual report for 2005, Hustinx named the
evaluation
of member states' practices on telecommunication data retention a
priority
for ...
<http://www.euractiv.com/Article?tcmuri=tcm:29-154455-16&type=News>
US attorney general calls for 'reasonable' data retention
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... is hampering investigations into gruesome online sex crimes, US
Attorney
General Alberto Gonzales said Thursday, indicating that new data
retention
rules may ...
<http://news.com.com/U.S.+attorney+general+calls+for+reasonable+data+rete
ntion/2100-1030_3-6063185.html>
Busted: Safe Secrets Revealed
Pembrokeshiretv.com - UK
... document in the safe was the 1905 sewerage plan for Fishguard, also
inside were the 1925 deeds to the ... People might remember putting some
of these documents in. ...
<http://www.pembrokeshiretv.com/content/templates/v6-article.asp?articlei
d=1868>
Electronic Storage Helps Small Businesses
Wilmington Morning Star - Wilmington,NC,USA
... Blum's firm suggests keeping a variety of legal documents
permanently:
contracts, deeds, mortgages, bills of sale, trademarks, patents, and
copyrights.
<http://www.wilmingtonstar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060419/APF/60
4191006>
Let the Web be your warehouse
CNET News.com - San Francisco,CA,USA
... new service would allow consumers to store diverse data from movies
and music to tax records and documents ... "Amazon also has an S3 web
services for data storage. ...
<http://news.com.com/2061-11199_3-6063137.html>
Apple questioned in 'Asteroid' trade secrets case
MacDailyNews - USA
I'm sure Apple doesn't expect to get anywhere with their lawsuits, just
the fear factor might do some temporary good. I was always ...
<http://macdailynews.com/index.php/weblog/comments/9321/>
Apple questioned in trade secrets case
BusinessWeek - USA
... the right of journalists to protect the confidentiality of sources
and give companies more legal leeway to track down supposed leaks of
trade
secrets is now in ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/ap/financialnews/D8H414884.htm?campaign_id=a
pn_home_down&chan=db>
Apple Still Seeking Closure on Blogger Suit
MacNewsWorld - Encino,CA,USA
... When disclosure also presents a misappropriation of trade secrets,
then that form of speech should not be protected by the First
Amendment,"
Ballon told the E ...
<http://www.macnewsworld.com/story/kwJyeML7QtH3si/Apple-Still-Seeking-Clo
sure-on-Blogger-Suit.xhtml>
Worth hundreds of thousands Cannons get another shot
Concord Monitor - Concord,NH,USA
... they were kept in storage, like a lot of things usually are, and
nobody
(knew) what to do with them," said Peter Fortier, the state's military
archivist. ...
<http://www.concordmonitor.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060420/REPOSI
TORY/604200357/1037/48HOURS>
Shop violated customers' privacy
Edmonton Journal (subscription) - Edmonton,Alberta,Canada
... receipt. Daily logs and records will be kept in locked storage
containers
and all record shredding will be logged. Monarch also ...
<http://www.canada.com/edmontonjournal/news/cityplus/story.html?id=310d69
4a-2483-468f-8f5b-83400fdc754a&k=41382>
Being an IT Hero
SmartPros Accounting - USA
... This does not need to be a comprehensive document, but must reflect
a clear articulation of value (not simply ... Examples: Data retention
for SOX and HIPAA privacy ...
<http://accounting.smartpros.com/x52561.xml>
Secretary says an inability to sleep led to dumping documents
WHO-TV - Des Moines,IA,USA
Laurie Rieck has been on paid leave since April 6th, when authorities
found
her discarding personnel documents and other files before sunrise. ...
<http://www.whotv.com/Global/story.asp?S=4798457>
FBI Rebuffed on Reporter's Files
Washington Post - United States
... over 50 years of files to agents who want to look for evidence in
the
prosecution of two pro-Israel lobbyists, as well as any classified
documents
Anderson had ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/18/AR200604
1800961.html>
State recovers a long-lost letter by Washington
Boston Globe - United States
A rare letter from George Washington stolen 60 years ago from the state
archives was rescued days before it was to go on the auction block,
state
officials said ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2006/04/17/state
_recovers_a_long_lost_letter_by_washington>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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