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Automated Backup and Recovery Solution that Ensures Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... available to secure the company’s essential financial records,”
said Mark ... suite of products, NetMass delivers online backup, data
storage, file sharing ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/news/detail.cfm?articleID=1867>

Firefighter Museum Just Gathering Dust
Tampa Tribune - Tampa,FL,USA
... said. The board went through city archives in search of historic 
documents,
and many people in the Tampa Bay area donated items. ...
<http://news.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB279KWXME.html>

US Cracks Down on Stolen Computer Drives
Washington Post - United States
... The computer storage devices stolen from the US base that were 
widely
available in ... Agha did, however, show the AP a brand new Toshiba 
laptop
computer he said ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/05/08/AR200605
0800689.html>

Storage: Private life of data
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... out of the question – perhaps because of the sheer volume of data
– the main thing Bank of America failed to do was ensure that even if
the tapes fell into ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Articles/2006/05/09/215804/Storage+Private
+life+of+data.htm>

EU Data Retention: Compliance Strategies for ISPs and ...
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
In this Xtalks web conference on May 30, 2006, the new EU data retention
directive will be examined by: Martin Hoskins, T-Mobile, giving the 
telecommunications
<http://www.prweb.com/releases/2006/5/prweb382053.htm>

Town clerks lobby to limit public records responsibility
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... said. The government needs one person that the public can find and
hold accountable for access to public documents, she said. "Part ...
<http://www.northjersey.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzJmZ
nYmVsN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTMyMDk2JnlyaXJ5N2Y3MTdmN3ZxZWVFRXl5Mg==>


Setback for US data breach law
PC Advisor - London,UK
Now, more than a year after data breaches at ChoicePoint and LexisNexis
set off a national debate about identification theft and data security,
time is running ...
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/news/index.cfm?newsid=6113>

Plans for digitizing immigration records called into question
GovExec.com - USA
... The documents, known as alien files, or A-Files, are kept for 75 
years
under a National Archive and Records Administration mandate, and are 
used
within the ...
<http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=34031&dcn=todaysnews>

The Quest for Privacy Can Make Us Thieves
New York Times - United States
... She also contacted her general practitioner, who wouldn't delete the
records but put an alert on the chart: "Don't fax this file to anyone
without checking ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/09/health/09essa.html>

Deja vu for Wells Fargo: bank loses computer with confidential data 
(May 08 2006, 12:00AM)

For the fourth time in the last two and half years, hardware containing 
confidential data about Wells Fargo customers has been stolen. The bank 
on Friday began notifying affected customers of the theft.
http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&a
rticleId=9000293




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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