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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
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Privacy Debacle Hall of Fame
Wired News - USA
... ChoicePoint, one of the largest data brokers in the world, in early
2005 admitted that it had released sensitive data on roughly 163,000 
people
to fraudsters ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/politics/privacy/0,71622-0.html?tw=wn_index_2>


Symantec extends archiving software
Infostor magazine - Tulsa,OK,USA
... It stops the destruction of the messages in legal hold until the 
case
is ... relationship with the law firm Redgrave Daley Ragan & Wagner for
records retention and ...
<http://www.infostor.com/Articles/Article_Display.cfm?Section=ARTCL&SubSe
ction=Display&PUBLICATION_ID=23&ARTICLE_ID=266605>

The Million-Dollar Backup Tape
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
... any tapes you've purchased, and keep purchasing records to back this
up. Subtract any tapes that have been destroyed, and keep written 
destruction
certificates ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=it_management&articleId=9002575&taxonomyId=14>

Archives uncovers WWII newspapers
Camden Chronicle Independent - SC, United States
Camden Archives and Museum staffer Peggy Brakefield made a curious 
discovery
while conducting inventory in conjunction with ongoing renovations. ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=17090810&BRD=1382&PAG=461&dept
_id=161822&rfi=6>

Unilever scales an Iron Mountain
Silicon.com - UK
Tony Farah, head of global desktop strategy at Unilever, told 
silicon.com
the Iron Mountain service will remotely back up data from the 30,000 
laptops
across ...
<http://www.silicon.com/retailandleisure/0,3800011842,39161271,00.htm>

TECHNOLOGY   | August 21, 2006
A Move to Secure Data by Scattering the Pieces
By JOHN MARKOFF
New software divides digital documents and other files into slices that 
can only be reassembled by the computer that created them, then stores 
the slices on the Internet.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/21/technology/21storage.html?>

FileNet Records Manager Helps Texas A&M University Achieve Records ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20000207/FILENETLOGO ) 
Texas
A&M's Division of Finance deployed Records Manager to archive all 
Division
files. ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/0
8-21-2006/0004419102&EDATE=>

Citizenship agency to begin digitization
United Press International - USA
... can lead to it. The agency holds about 70 million immigration 
records,
known as Alien Files or A-Files. The agency announced last ...
<http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20060821-010750-79
64r>

Preserving the past for the future
Salem News - Salem,Ohio,USA
... Since March, volunteers from the group have been blacking out social
security numbers from records, which means they've had a chance to 
peruse
the files. ...
<http://www.salemnews.net/news/story/0821202006_new02past.asp>

DocuVantage Awarded Contract with State of Florida Department of ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... This initiative will also manage document retention as well as the
archival of the DBPR's paper documents while replacing paper as a driver
in its business ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20060821005273&newsLang=en>

BAT shredded evidence helpful to dying smokers' claims, judge says
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... He said: "The purpose of [Wills'] document retention policy [DRP] 
was
twofold: to protect the litigation position of Wills, and to protect the
litigation ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1855605,00.html>

ArchivesOne Marks 30th Acquisition
Connecticut Business News Journal - CT,USA
... has announced the purchase of Tri City Records Management of 
Greensboro,
NC This latest acquisition by the nation's third-largest 
records-management
and ...
<http://www.conntact.com/article_page.lasso?id=40189>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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