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Column: Why private government e-mails should be pubic records
Cushing Daily Citizen - Cushing,OK,USA
... cities and towns trying to scare the press off contentious public 
records
cases by charging them unreasonable fees to make copies of electronic
records such as ...
<http://www.cushingdaily.com/opinion/cnhinsall_story_226115917.html?keywo
rd=topstory>

Judge Orders Voice Samples Taken in Coca-Cola Trade Secrets Case
FOX News - USA
ATLANTA — A judge on Monday ordered three people charged in the theft
of trade secrets from The Coca-Cola Co. (KO) to turn over ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,208299,00.html>

Wartime past of men like Grass kept under lock and key
Monsters and Critics.com - Glasgow,UK
... including files on veterans still alive, Germany has not opened its
files up to ... 18 million index cards of personnel and 100 million 
other
records on soldiers. ...
<http://news.monstersandcritics.com/europe/article_1190330.php/Wartime_pa
st_of_men_like_Grass_kept_under_lock_and_key>

AOL Search-Term Data Was Anonymous, But Not Innocuous
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... and to deliver targeted advertising. Data retention also is a 
regulatory
requirement in some quarters. Lauren Weinstein, a privacy ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1919
01983&subSection=Development>

Users wary of Rule 37(f) data retention 'loophole'
Search Storage - USA
... a "safe harbor" when it comes to data discovery in litigation -- if
the defendant has made a "good faith" effort to maintain a data 
retention/deletion
policy ...
<http://searchstorage.techtarget.com/originalContent/0,289142,sid5_gci121
0424,00.html>

FileNet Buy Makes It Clear Where IBM Is Head With Applications
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... help businesses deal with ever-increasing volumes of electronic 
messages;
and Records Manager, which helps companies comply with document 
retention
regulations ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/software/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=1919
02002>

Archivist to oversee county's records
Daily News Journal (subscription) - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
... After that he served eight months as senior archivist for the state
archives of Georgia in Atlanta, before returning to Murfreesboro to 
become
director of ...
<http://dnj.midsouthnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS01/6
08140315/1002>

Privacy an issue with records bill
Boston Globe - United States
WASHINGTON -- A bill to encourage computerized medical records has 
provoked
opposition from privacy advocates, consumer groups, and civil 
libertarians
who ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2006/08/14/privacy
_an_issue_with_records_bill>

Private Medical Records Found In Dumpster
WAVY-TV - Portsmouth,VA,USA
Boxes of private medical information were found in a Portsmouth dumpster
over the weekend. ... City records show the office closed in May. ...
<http://www.wavy.com/Global/story.asp?S=5280000&nav=23ii>

Archives declining as search for home continues
Toronto Star - Ontario, Canada
And just as Alice grew so tall that her feet "seemed to be almost out of
sight," the cost of a new home for the archives keeps on growing. ...
<http://www.thestar.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=thestar/Layout/A
rticle_Type1&c=Article&cid=1155333027894&call_pageid=968256290204&col=968
350116795>

The revealing nature of used hard drives
Taipei Times - Taiwan
... as part of an investigation by British Telecom (BT), data 
destruction
specialists Life Cycle ... details such as his date of birth and credit
card records on the ...
<http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/editorials/archives/2006/08/14/200332318
1>

Morgan County Courthouse Fire Ruled Accidental
NBC 25 - Hagerstown,MD,USA
... “We need to get that building up, completed, get our county records
where they can be assessed by attorneys and so forth,” said Swaim. ...
<http://www.nbc25.com/main/modules/news/article.php?storyid=3184>

Trends in data lifecycle management
Engineer Live - London,London,UK
It has been reported that Information Lifecycle Management (ILM) is so
complex, it's almost impossible. Even leading storage vendors ...
<http://www.engineerlive.com/features/16018/trends-in-data-lifecycle-mana
gement.thtml>

Balancing privacy with e-discovery
Law Times - Aurora,Ontario,Canada
... court or to comply with court rules relating to production of 
records.
... Although relevant documents, even for ... that an image search might
turn up files that were ...
<http://www.lawtimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70
1&Itemid=82>

NASA can't find original tape of moon landing
Reuters.uk - UK
... types of recordable media. The material was held by the National 
Archives
but returned to NASA sometime in the late 1970s, he said.
<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=scienceNews&storyI
D=2006-08-14T214821Z_01_N14473052_RTRIDST_0_SCIENCE-SPACE-TAPES-DC.XML>

Steelworks set to close but project will keep memories alive
News &amp; Star - Carlisle,Cumbria,UK
... the Whitehaven records office will have detailed archives about the
steelworks before generations of history is lost for good. Project 
archivist
Ruth MacLeod ...
<http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=400350>

Space-Saving Document Imaging System Eliminates Storage Problem at ...
Paypershop.com (press release) - Leeds,England,UK
... integrated into Horbury's Intellect accounting and business system,
the current process of storing documents for years at a time in lever
arch files, will be ...
<http://www.paypershop.com/press/versionone052.html>

Lawyers must handle other parties' information as if their own
Law Times - Aurora,Ontario,Canada
In a recent decision, the Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that counsel
who have been given access to another party's confidential documents 
must
also take ...
<http://www.lawtimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=70
4&Itemid=82>

The Business Journal of the Greater Triad Area, Mon, 14 Aug 2006 1:10 
PM PDT
Greensboro records-management firm sold
http://www.bizjournals.com/triad/stories/2006/08/14/daily8.html?from_rss=
1
ArchivesOne Inc., one of the largest records-management and storage 
companies in the country, has purchased locally owned Tri City Records 
Management, it said in a press release Monday.


The Town Talk, Mon, 14 Aug 2006 0:53 AM PDT
DEQ offers online access to its public records
http://www.thetowntalk.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060814/NEWS01/608
03010
Louisiana residents may now access Louisiana Department of 
Environmental Quality public records from their home, office or 
anywhere they have Internet access, the department has announced.




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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