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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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Email shock a business horror
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... easily recall a document and delete or alter it, or resend an email
after alteration ... Searching does not deal with alterations or 
destruction,
or even forgery. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/business/email-shock-a-business-horror/200
6/04/23/1145730810158.html>

What's a Little Metadata Mining Between Colleagues?
Daily Business Review

While some lawyers revere the mining of metadata as an electronic
method of rooting out wrongdoing, others liken it to rifling another 
attorney's
desk. Just take a look at the brouhaha in Florida, where the State Bar, 
alarmed by
the possibility of attorneys extracting metadata from professional
correspondence, recently tried to ban the practice on ethical grounds. 
Said a member of
the Bar's Computer Law Committee, "That's a little overly broad, saying
that everybody that looks for metadata is evil."
http://www.law.com/jsp/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1145538533635

Rare Oscar Wilde documents donated to university library
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
... with the expert help he received from Russian archivist Richard 
Davies
that ... of international significance by the Museums, Libraries and 
Archives
Council last ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=55&ArticleID
=1460276>

Apple questioned in trade secrets case
Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... The civil liberties organisation contended Apple's protection of 
trade
secrets in this case ... and argued the information leak constituted "a
very serious theft.". ...
<http://smh.com.au/news/breaking/apple-questioned-in-trade-secrets-case/2
006/04/21/1145344245747.html>

Court questions Apple on trade secrets, says report
EETimes.com - USA
... The organization contends Apple’s protection of trade secrets should
not outweigh the ... that amount to an information leak constituting "a
very serious theft.". ...
<http://www.eetimes.com/news/design/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=186500653
>


The fundamentals of computer forensics
Techworld.com - London,UK
... can serve as evidence, including text documents, graphical images 
...
spreadsheets, audio and video files, Web sites ... E-mail records and
instant messaging logs can ...
<http://www.techworld.com/security/features/index.cfm?featureid=2458&pagt
ype=samecat>

Use caution in deciding what old files to toss
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
By Joyce M. Rosenberg. NEW YORK — Accumulating records and documents
is an inevitable part of running a small business. Paperwork ...
<http://www.azstarnet.com/business/125985>

Build an Email-Discovery Plan
SQL Server Magazine (subscription) - Loveland,CO,USA
... exclusive article "Dealing with .pst Files," November 2003 ... 
simplifies
and centralizes the storage of important documents. ... papers or 
millions
of records; in this ...
<http://www.windowsitpro.com/MicrosoftExchangeOutlook/Article/ArticleID/4
9896/49896.html>

Privacy compliance has declined
FCW.com - Falls Church,VA,USA
Three years after federal rules governing the privacy of patients’ 
medical
records went into effect, compliance seems to have declined, according
to an ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article94145-04-24-06-Print>

Personal data at risk in laptop theft
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
... loss of valuable data in case of laptop theft ... About 97 percent
of stolen computers are never recovered ... Consider the Motorola Q, a
Windows Mobile cell phone with ...
<http://www.sptimes.com/2006/04/24/Technology/Personal_data_at_risk.shtml
>

Officials study archive options
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
EASTON | Three commercial records storage companies, the county's 
historical
society and neighboring Lehigh County all say they could help find a 
home
for ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-5/1145851826
236930.xml&coll=2>


Workshare keeps sensitive information out of e-mail
TMCnet - USA
... document or have it blocked. Another way to protect confidential 
documents
is by adding restrictions. From the Protect toolbar in ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-workshare-keeps-sensitive-information-out
-e-mail-/2006/04/24/1600468.htm>

Unauthorized Access of Computer Records Discovered at UT Austin
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
The University of Texas at Austin officials announced today that an 
unknown
person or persons has gained entry to the McCombs School of Business 
computers
and ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php/99286>

Postini adds user message archiving to e-mail service
ComputerWorld - USA
... Postini first launched its Archive Manager service late last year,
the company assumed customers would want archiving for document 
retention
and regulatory or ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,110799
,00.html>

$306.5 million victory for Rambus in DDR patent case against Hynix
TG Daily - USA
... Rather, Hynix maintained that several years ago, Rambus may have 
initiated
a "document retention" program, or a euphemistic way of referring to how
the company ...
<http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/04/24/victory_for_rambus_in_hynix_patent_sui
t/>

Online Records: Gold Mine for Thieves, Stalkers, Terrorists
CNSNews.com - Alexandria,VA,USA
... The information comes from a variety of documents including deeds,
mortgage records, federal and state tax liens, court judgments, child
support orders ...
<http://www.cnsnews.com/ViewSpecialReports.asp?Page=/SpecialReports/archi
ve/200604/SPE20060424a.html>

Nearly 200,000 electronic records illegally accessed
Houston Chronicle - United States
... The university is in the process of removing Social Security numbers
as indentifers on electronic records but the particular records accessed
had not yet been ...
<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/3813790.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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