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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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NHS fails to secure mobile data
VNUNet.com - UK
... Small devices with large data storage capacity make it very easy for
a person to carry unnoticed large amounts of data such as patient 
records
or sensitive ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/computing/news/2159227/nhs-failing-secure-mobile>

Company Spy: The Case of the $100 Million Blueprints
New York Jewish Times - New York,NY,USA
... So what’s the lesson? Protect those trade secrets. Sanders ... 
operational.
“Stealing trade secrets is worse than stealing money from a company.
<http://nyjtimes.com/cover/06-27-06/The$100MilBluperints.htm>

Public records site shut down
Cincinnati Post - OH,USA
... Hartmann, a Republican candidate for Ohio secretary of state this 
year,
said he supports open records, but the public's security must be the 
primary
concern. ...
<http://news.cincypost.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060627/NEWS01/606
270375>

Search firm promises complete user privacy
VNUNet.com - UK
... "Therefore we have decided to permanently delete all personal search
records. If the data is not stored, users' privacy cannot be breached.".
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2159193/search-firm-promises-total-use
r>

Councilman irked by data postings on Web
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... to require citizens to find out if online county postings of their
quit-claim deeds, deeds of trust and ... The documents date from the 
early
1990s to the present. ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/6420AP_WA_County_Records_Online.html
>

Medical records rescued
Forbes Advocate - Forbes,New South Wales,Australia
Saving Harold Street Medical Centre's records was a massive task 
according
to NSW Fire Brigade Forbes captain Brian Clarke. All ...
<http://forbes.yourguide.com.au/detail.asp?class=news&subclass=general&st
ory_id=490203&category=General&m=6&y=2006>


Martin Luther King's private papers saved from auction
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... The facility they have as far as we know is not 100% climactically
controlled for archival papers, and there is no 24-hour human security
at the site.".
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/usa/story/0,,1807435,00.html>

County records to go digital
Council Bluffs Daily Nonpareil - Council Bluffs,IA,USA
Pottawattamie County events that occurred back in the 1850s, and 
possibly
as far back as the 1840s, will soon be in contact with 21st Century 
technology
to ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=16847622&BRD=2703&PAG=461&dept
_id=555106&rfi=6>

King County Records and Elections puts thousands at risk for ...
Sound Politics - Seattle,WA,USA
King County Councilmember Reagan Dunn held a press conference today to
discuss this recent discovery: King County's Records, Elections, and 
Licensing
Services ...
<http://www.soundpolitics.com/archives/006397.html>

Comcast says to keep Internet records for 180 days
Reuters - USA
... DeGette cited a child pornography case last year in which she said
investigators were hindered by destruction of Comcast records. ...
<http://today.reuters.com/stocks/QuoteCompanyNewsArticle.aspx?view=CN&sto
ryID=2006-06-27T214654Z_01_N27273224_RTRIDST_0_MEDIA-COMCAST-RECORDS.XML&
rpc=66>

Rare maps in brush with criminal world
National Post - Canada
... States. It's a crime that has shocked historians and forced major 
security
upgrades to museums and archives around the world. Among ...
<http://www.canada.com/nationalpost/news/story.html?id=2184a40d-6a15-48b4
-b11c-c865f5098691&k=30512>

Let's try this one more time
Computerworld - USA
"As the only IT person here, I had to explain to our secretary how to 
scan
the documents," fish says. "I also sent her procedures on how to name
files.". ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/sharktank.do?command=viewDailyFull&d
ate=20060627>


Telecom Lessons Learned?
B-EYE-Network - Boulder,CO,USA
... Also in 2005, Bank of America lost data tapes with federal employee
credit card information. This time, the data associated with 1.2 million
people was lost. ...
<http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/3042?jsessionid=95eab229e402b95fd2463e
51ea47cafb>

Data thieves use P2P to grab firms’ secrets
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... The problem arises because staff are unwittingly exposing 
confidential
documents to public access when they take work home or work remotely 
using
computers ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/Home/Articles/2006/06/27/216632/Data+thiev
es+use+P2P+to+grab+firms%E2%80%99+secrets.htm>

Attn. ID thieves: Look here
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
... Aside from that, Logan said, his office wasn't aware of a single 
case
where public documents filed with the county have been used for identity
theft. ...
<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/275452_idtheft27.html>

City audit reports no longer online
Lynchburg News and Advance - Lynchburg,VA,USA
By Conor Reilly. Lynchburg public documents once available on the 
Internet
were yanked from public view by a city committee late last year. ...
<http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=LNA%2FMGArticle%2F
LNA_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188767732&path=!news!archive>

Social Security numbers online spark concerns about ID theft
Web Devil - USA
... complainant, officials cited Arizona state law, which does not 
provide
authority for the county recorder to redact Social Security numbers from
public documents ...
<http://www.statepress.com/issues/2006/06/26/news/697063>

Ex-Greene official charged with document tampering
Charlottesville Daily Progress - Charlottesville,VA,USA
Greene County’s embattled former administrator has been charged with
altering public documents while he was employed by the county, according
to court records ...
<http://www.dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP%2FMGArticle%
2FCDP_BasicArticle&c=MGArticle&cid=1149188768159&path=!news>

Australian Police Lose Thousands of Public Records
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
June 27th, 2006: Australian High Tech Crime Centre in very low-tech 
error
exposes the personal banking details of 3,500 people. ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=7270>

Laptop Lockdown
Wall Street Journal - USA
... In May, a data analyst with the Department of Veterans Affairs had
a laptop stolen from his Maryland home that contained confidential 
information
on 26.5 ...
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB115145402822192505-gTTm9f4PlhnH8o
NufP6ghrEocpM_20060727.html?mod=tff_main_tff_top>

Does digital age spell privacy's doom?
Christian Science Monitor - Boston,MA,USA
... Since February 2005, when data-aggregation company ChoicePoint 
revealed
that scammers had tricked it into providing them with the private 
financial
records of ...
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0628/p15s01-ussc.html>

Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Tue, 27 Jun 2006 6:52 PM PDT
Emory left out of loop in King deal
<<http://www.ajc.com/services/content/metro/atlanta/stories/0628metking.h
tml?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=13>>
Emory University was noticeably absent from the excitement surrounding 
Atlanta's $32 million acquisition of Martin Luther King Jr.'s writings 
last week. Early on, Emory and Morehouse College had been seen as 
potential joint custodians of the extensive collection, according to 
people familiar with the negotiations. The coveted writings had been 
destined for auction this week in New York before an


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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