RAIN 060821 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. 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 [log in to unmask] ________________________________________________________________________ Check out AOL.com today. Breaking news, video search, pictures, email and IM. All on demand. Always Free. A posting from the Archives & Archivists LISTSERV List sponsored by the Society of American Archivists, www.archivists.org. For the terms of participation, please refer to http://www.archivists.org/listservs/arch_listserv_terms.asp. To subscribe or unsubscribe, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] In body of message: SUB ARCHIVES firstname lastname *or*: UNSUB ARCHIVES To post a message, send e-mail to [log in to unmask] Or to do *anything* (and enjoy doing it!), use the web interface at http://listserv.muohio.edu/archives/archives.html Problems? Send e-mail to Robert F Schmidt <[log in to unmask]>