RAIN 060606
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Feds Want Web Records Stored for Two Years
Sci-Tech Today - USA
... To date, ISPs discard log files not needed for business purposes --
such ... applicable law here is the Electronic Communication
Transactional
Records Act, enacted ...
<http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=01100187PZ2L>
Need a quick look into Williamson County's past?
Austin American-Statesman (subscription) - Austin,TX,USA
... Shelves full of deed records dating to 1848 dwarf Williamson County
Clerk Nancy Rister in the ... In January 2005, workers began putting
them
in computer files. ...
<http://www.statesman.com/news/content/news/stories/local/06/6records.htm
l>
Laptop theft may have jeopardized employee data
TMCnet - USA
... called up the data through a hotel computer and then did not delete
the file. Last month, it was reported that the electronic records of
26.5
million US ...
<http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/-laptop-theft-may-have-jeopardized-employe
e-data-/2006/06/05/1669381.htm>
Employees get canned for e-mailing
CNN - USA
... The Department of Justice seized Enron's e-mail records, and used
them
as ... at Credit Suisse First Boston, during a legal investigation, to
delete e-mails. ...
<http://www.cnn.com/money/2006/06/05/news/companies/email_firings/?cnn=ye
s>
Firms Delete Email Abuse
Red Herring - CA,USA
... Currently ISPs retain the records of customers’ online activity for
only a few weeks, but the government wants ISPs to keep those records
for two years (see ...
<http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=17093&hed=Firms+Delete+Email+Ab
use>
SOX It to Them
"I've come up with a solution for solving world poverty: Every time a
representative of an IT vendor uses Sarbanes-Oxley or SOX in relation
to their product you make a $1 donation to Oxfam. Better yet, you could
set up a SOX-free compliance unit in your office and then fine the
vendors when they make irrelevant breaches."
http://cio.idg.comau/index.php/id;1161809390
Indiana businesses must notify customers of computer-security ...
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... The new law stems, in part, from a well-publicized case involving
the
data firm ChoicePoint Inc., whose massive database of consumer
information
was accessed ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEWS0
2/60606018>
State Farm shreds records
Biloxi Sun Herald - MS, USA
... State Farm has been shredding records weekly at the Biloxi
Catastrophe
Office and on various schedules at other South Mississippi offices since
Hurricane ...
<http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/14749637.htm>
Report faults ex-dean
Cherry Hill Courier Post - Cherry Hill,NJ,USA
... the university for $200,000 in extravagances and rigged financial
records
to qualify ... 17 that a UMDNJ employee in Wallace's office was
shredding
documents that ...
<http://www.courierpostonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEW
S01/606060341/1006>
123-year-old Arctic whaler mystery is finally solved
Buchan Observer - Scotland, UK
... who works at Peterhead Library, first began her search in September
2003 when she received an e-mail forwarded from Dundee City Archive
(DCA)
regarding a Mr ...
<http://www.buchanie.co.uk/archived/2006/week_23/news/arctic_whaler.asp>
Former employee gets prison for Silicon Valley trade secrets theft
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
... A former Silicon Valley hardware company executive was sentenced to
two years in prison today for attempting to sell his former company's
trade secrets to a ...
<http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/local/14752547.htm>
City takes tech step
Taunton Gazette - Taunton,MA,USA
... into an easily accessible database, Registrar of Deeds David Simas
said. "On our network we have a database that consists of 7.5 million
documents," Simas said ...
<http://www.tauntongazette.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16742772&BRD=1711&PAG
=461&dept_id=24232&rfi=6>
Committee to make archives recommendation
Allentown Morning Call - Allentown,PA,USA
... The county has about $700,000 available to put toward a new
building.
The money comes from fees that are charged when documents such as deeds
are filed.
<http://www.mcall.com/news/local/easton/all-b3-3archives-4jun06,0,3488617
.story?coll=all-newslocaleaston-hed>
Lies Historians Tell: Baltimore Bunkum and Maryland Myths
UMB News - Baltimore,MD,USA
... historians have argued over whether there was a plot to assassinate
Abraham Lincoln in 1861, said Edward Papenfuse, PhD, Maryland state
archivist
and an ...
<http://www.oea.umaryland.edu/communications/news/?ViewStatus=FullArticle
&articleDetail=557>
Dean collection up for auction
Marion Chronicle Tribune - Marion,IN,USA
... Loehr, former James Dean Gallery curator and longtime Dean
archivist,
recently decided to auction off most of his collection through Heritage
Galleries, a ...
<http://www.chronicle-tribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060606/NEW
S01/606060318/1002>
Retiring clerk deletes records
NorthJersey.com - Hackensack,NJ,USA
... was slow from being overloaded with files, and there was a hard copy
of all records deleted, she ... "I can see absolutely, positively no
reason
to delete a file ...
<http://www.bergen.com/page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkzNTcmZmdi
ZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY5NDQ4NTAmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXkz>
Panel: New archives building needed
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
EASTON | Northampton County Council will soon hear a recommendation that
the county should either build or buy its own archives building instead
of paying ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/pa/index.ssf?/base/news-6/1149567086
14230.xml&coll=2>
Parliament receives copy of BBC Greek Service archives
Athens News Agency - Athens,Greece
The Greek Parliament on Tuesday received a copy of the BBC Greek Service
archives in a bid to "preserve the recent historic memory of Greece",
as Parliament ...
<http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=4306077&maindocimg=43052
41&service=102>
Rare library books turn up on eBay
Manchester Evening News - Manchester,England,UK
... The library, built in the 1930s, is home to thousands of books,
boasting
extensive archives and valuable reference materials. In ...
<http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/men/news/s/215/215026_rare_librar
y_books_turn_up_on_ebay.html>
Bulgaria to tell the whole truth about communist secret archives
Pravda - Moscow,Russia
Bulgaria will promulgate communist secret services' archives within a
month.
They are ready to tell "the whole truth." But information ...
<http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/06-06-2006/81613-Bulgaria-0>
La Gaceta donates archives to USF
Tampa Bay's 10 - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
Concerned about protecting a piece of Tampa Bay history, the newspaper
La Gaceta has donated a 21-year chunk of its archives to USF. ...
<http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/morning/article.aspx?storyid=32836
>
Managing Risk in the Storage Environment
CTR - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... then moves to information transfer, information storage, information
viewing, and information destruction. ... are made for the data itself
(file/records and block ...
<http://www.wwpi.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1194&Itemi
d=44>
Governance: Triple Threats
Baseline - New York,NY,USA
... Sarbanes-Oxley came in first on spending, ahead of 15 other
mandates,
including document retention, manufacturing process approval, and
various
privacy and ...
<http://www.baselinemag.com/article2/0,1540,1972563,00.asp>
Data Grab
AMTOnline.com - Beltsville,MD,USA
... internal data-retention policies "in light of European Union
data-retention
regulations ... government agency unless required to by law or a
court-issued
document. ...
<http://www.amtonline.com/article/article.jsp?siteSection=1&id=2397>
IT Execs Race Against Time Along Gulf Coast (June 05 2006, 12:00AM)
As the new hurricane season officially started last week, IT managers
who experienced Katrina say they have taken steps to upgrade their
disaster recovery capabilities. But many still have more work ahead of
them.
<<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic
&articleId=111492>>
Ahold USA pension data lost when laptop disappears (June 05 2006,
12:00AM)
Data on retirees from the grocery store chain was stored on a laptop
lost in May after being improperly checked in as baggage for a flight.
<<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic
&articleId=9000953>>
EEOC targets FedEx over bias concerns
Arizona Daily Star - Tucson,AZ,USA
... to surrender documents the agency believes may show the company
practices
racial ... has refused to comply with a subpoena to produce certain
files
related to its ...
<http://www.azstarnet.com/business/132315>
Nearly Half of Computer Users Don't Back-Up Data
ClickZ News - New York,NY,USA
... data on their computers tend to keep digital pictures (71 percent);
personal contact information (58 percent); work-related files and
documents
(43 percent ...
<http://www.clickz.com/stats/sectors/software/article.php/3611461>
Information commissioner withholds information
InTheNews.co.uk - London,UK
... The ICO's ruling was made on the basis that it had not provided any
reason for its decision to withhold the letters, in line with the
Freedom
of Information Act ...
<http://www.inthenews.co.uk/news/news/politics/information-commissioner-w
ithholds-information-$441951.htm>
Spotlight shines on tape encryption
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
Tapes in transit to backup facilities have gone missing, with companies
such as Citigroup and Time Warner among those experiencing losses. ...
<http://www.infostor.com/news/display_news_story.cfm?Section=WIREN&Catego
ry=HOME&NewsID=135461>
Grant will help preserve township's long history
Woodbridge Sentinel - NJ, USA
... That first grant allowed us to perform a needs analysis and
strategic
plan on how to address our managing of public documents," said township
Clerk John Mitch. ...
<http://ws.gmnews.com/news/2006/0607/Front_Page/032.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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