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E-mail a factor in case against former Bush official
By Anne Broache
During opening of David Safavian's trial, prosecutors say messages will
prove he lied about links to Jack Abramoff.
<<http://news.com.com/E-mail+a+factor+in+case+against+former+Bush+officia
l/2100-1028_3-6076292.html?tag=sas.email>>
United States: Getting Nailed By E-mail
01 June 2006
Article by Eric J. Sinrod
Reprinted with permission from CNET News
When are people going to learn? Many folks act as if e-mail is akin to
a verbal conversation that comes and goes in the wind. Yet e-mail has a
degree of permanence that hardly ever dies.
Recent history is crammed with examples of e-mails that later became
the bane of their authors' existence. Once revealed, a poorly worded
e-mail or an e-mail that should not have been sent in the first place
can cause much embarrassment. That's the best-case scenario. The
worst-case scenario? Try civil liability and even criminal prosecution.
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=40162&product_id=9&company_i
d=21358&friend=1>>
Atlanta Journal Constitution
Fragile digital data in danger of fading past history's reach
Coral Davenport - Cox Washington Bureau
Wednesday, June 7, 2006
Washington --- It is estimated that in the next three years, humanity
will generate more data than it has in the past 1,000 years --- nearly
all of it digital.
Many of the records that once allowed historians to study a society's
history --- from personal correspondence to government documents ---
may be slipping, irretrievably, into the digital ether.
<http://www.ajc.com/search/content/auto/epaper/editions/today/news_446806
c1e2a170f00064.html>
Email Management and Sarbanes Oxley Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... At a large software publisher, company policy required the
destruction
of e-mail messages older than seven days and the storage/archival of
e-mail
messages ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/feature/detail.cfm?articleID=913>
Information Commissioner admits he failed to comply with Freedom ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
... been forced to issue the first ever "Decision Notice" against
himself
for failure to comply with the requirements of the Freedom of
Information
Act - which he ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/6264>
Discarded records found
Fayetteville Online - Fayetteville NC,USA
... returns are generated electronically, but we maintain old files.”.
... for the box of discarded records, Rwejuan said ... at his office
today
to shred the documents. ...
<http://www.fayettevillenc.com/article?id=234817>
Newly Discovered Kennedy artifacts revealed
Cape Cod Today - Cape Cod,MA,USA
... filed suit last fall on behalf of the National Archives against the
... a Secret Service agent, according to Allan Goodrich, the Kennedy
Library's
chief archivist. ...
<http://www.capecodtoday.com/news195.htm>
Commissioners approve contracts, grants
Ridgway Record - Ridgway,PA,USA
... The Historical Record Storage Committee for Elk County has been
seeking
a system to transfer records to microfilm and ease public access for
over
a year and ...
<http://www.ridgwayrecord.com/articles/2006/06/07/news/news03.txt>
Protect Me, Protect My Data
BusinessWeek - USA
... BAC), Boeing International (BA), ChoicePoint (CPS), LexisNexis, Time
Warner (TWX), and ... be they Internet hackers, stolen laptops, lost
tapes,
or disgruntled ...
<http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060608_894982
.htm>
Records Bill heads for House
Fiji Times - Suva,Fiji
Cabinet has approved the tabling in Parliament of the Public Records
(Amendment)
Bill 2006. The Bill amends the Public Records Act, 1970. ...
<http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=42899>
New policy limits personal identifiers in public records
Rosenberg Herald Coaster - Rosenberg,TX,USA
By Stephen Palkot. The County Clerk's Office of Fort Bend County is now
asking lawyers and all others who file civil cases to keep ...
<http://www.herald-coaster.com/articles/2006/06/08/news/news02.txt>
Mayor apologizes after records denied again
Jackson Clarion Ledger - Jackson,MS,USA
... The newspaper and city have been at odds over public records
requests
the past few weeks, leading to the paper filing a lawsuit against
Melton,
the city ...
<http://www.clarionledger.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060608/NEWS/60
6080382/1001/news>
The Importance of Information Stewardship
CIO India - Bangalore,Karnataka,India
... Stewardship means data-quality management, data security, auditable
compliance with privacy and disclosure guidelines, information
life-cycle
management (ILM ...
<http://www.cio.in/news/viewArticle/ARTICLEID=1538>
Report Details Misdeeds by Dean at Medical School
New York Times - United States
... In May, a whistleblower reported to the monitor that people in Mr.
Wallace's office were shredding papers. The monitor found almost 1,700
files in Mr ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/05/nyregion/05cnd-hosp.html>
Custer documents at archives
Johnson County Sun - Overland Park,KS,USA
Archives specialist Lori Cox-Paul said she did not realize materials
transferred
to Kansas City from the National Archives in Washington held a
historical
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16753748&BRD=1459&PAG=461&dept
_id=155725&rfi=6>
Data Mismanagement
National Review Online Blogs - New York,NY,USA
... Congress might reduce breaches by relaxing these document-retention
requirements in laws like Sarbanes-Oxley. At the very least, Congress
...
<http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZmRjZmVhMGIyMDc3ZmNjNWMxMzkwZDA2ZTM
3NDAzZjc=>
JFK papers, photos to be put on Internet
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
The late president's papers will be digitized first, and could be
available
on the Internet in 18 months, said Allan B. Goodrich, the library's
chief
archivist ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/1700AP_BRF_JFK_Library_Online.htm
l>
New law guides privacy protection on campus
Western News - London,Ontario,Canada
... staff members will need to become aware of what the Act entails and
be prepared to handle requests for information, says university
Archivist
Robin Keirstead ...
<http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=21450>
Sudbury: Dad's voice from Somme heart-rending 90 years on
Sudbury Today - UK
... 1960. Anthony Wheeler, the association's archivist, remembers the
portrait
from when he was at the school in the 1930s and 40s. ...
<http://www.sudburytoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1579&ArticleID
=1552797>
Archivist aids parish history work
Catholic Sentinel - Portland,OR,USA
As archivist for the state of Oregon, she oversees all public records —
keeping them organized, protected and available to the public in a safe,
supervised ...
<http://www.sentinel.org/articles/2006-23/14755.html>
The way we were: Old films record Knoxville's history
WBIR-TV - Knoxville,TN,USA
... came out with the 16 mm film gage, meaning that the average guy on
the street would have access to the motion picture cameras and film,"
archivist Brad Reeves ...
<http://www.wbir.com/life/programming/local/liveatfive/story.aspx?storyid
=35075>
Historic Audiotape Discovered of President Kennedy's Dedication ...
All American Patriots (press release) - Taeby,NA,Sweden
... King was surprised to learn that the State Archives only had a
printed
copy of the speech, and local television stations had unceremoniously
and ...
<http://www.allamericanpatriots.com/m-news+article+storyid-15080.html>
Storage fit for a king, or a Kennedy
Boston Herald - United States
By Beth Teitell. So there’s going to be a $22 million addition to the
John F. Kennedy Presidential Library to house Sen. Ted Kennedy ...
<http://theedge.bostonherald.com/lifeNews/view.bg?articleid=142623>
Giving online world a link to JFK
Boston Globe - United States
... The project is an unprecedented effort to replicate the entire
collection
of a presidential library and post much of it on the Internet. ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/06/08/giving_online_world
_a_link_to_jfk>
A Little More Clinton At Clinton Library
Washington Post - United States
... thought I was right about an issue but they were determined not to
let anything happen," Clinton says in a new audio tour of his
presidential
library. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/06/05/AR200606
0501123.html>
Companies offer free data backup in hurricanes
Centre Daily Times - Centre County,PA,USA
... 2004, many northwestern Florida businesses lost all of their
computer
systems, and replacing the lost spreadsheets, employee files and other
records became a ...
<http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/business/14781508.htm>
Grids make archiving tools more responsive
IT Week - London,UK
... "We used to find that we could archive files but searching them ...
asking for specific emails from an archive holding millions of different
records, for example ...
<http://www.itweek.co.uk/itweek/news/2158001/grids-archiving-tools>
San Diego Union-Tribune, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 4:06 AM PDT
Audit finds problems with MiraCosta College records
http://www.uniontrib.com/news/education/20060608-9999-1mi8audit.html
OCEANSIDE, June 8 (UNION-TRIBUNE): An audit of cash transactions at
MiraCosta College found shoddy recordkeeping, minimal training and poor
security
for cash boxes.
RedNova, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 8:35 AM PDT
Mass. Relaxes Open-Format Mandate
http://www.redorbit.com/news/technology/531879/mass_relaxes_openformat_ma
ndate/index.html?source=r_technology
By Sternstein, Aliya CIO says state pol
Washington City Paper, Wed, 07 Jun 2006 9:14 PM PDT
Bridge and Tunnel Crowd
http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/districtline/2006/records0609.html?nav
CenterTop
City historical records find homes in odd places. Just because you’re
in charge of the city’s bridges and tunnels doesn’t mean you have to
keep your
irreplaceable historical documents in the city’s bridges and tunnels.
Market Watch, Thu, 08 Jun 2006 2:29 PM PDT
Firms base bonuses on clean records
http://www.marketwatch.com/tools/quotes/newsarticle.asp?guid=%7BB569CD10-
3CC4-44D7-AC11-009DA927335C%7D&dist=rss&siteid=mktw
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- For branch managers at many brokerage firms,
good compliance is more than just a feel-good aspiration; it can affect
their paycheck.
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The Oregonian, Fri, 09 Jun 2006 0:29 AM PDT
Officials clear Saif of wrongdoing
http://www.oregonlive.com/news/oregonian/index.ssf?/base/news/11498217292
63810.xml&coll=7
SALEM -- Saif Corp. and its employees did not engage in criminal
activity during a long-running legal battle over access to the
company's records, the
Marion County district attorney's office said Thursday after a two-year
investigation.
<http://tinyurl.com/pp2wa>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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