RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.

LURKING Liabilities in Security Law
ComputerWorld - USA
... "When you get wind that someone might be thinking of suing you, you
have to immediately change your document destruction procedures so you
don't destroy ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,101552,00.html>


LAW on ID theft catches small businesses unaware
Louisville Courier-Journal - Louisville,KY,USA
... "Shredding is pretty easy for paper, but the hard part is for
electronic
files," Brownlee said. "Delete doesn't necessarily mean delete.". ...
<http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050509/BUSINESS/505090303>


HOW to Protect Your Business's Trade Secrets
Entrepreneur - USA
... In addition, you should consider shredding (rather than throwing
away)
any documents containing trade secret materials and you should also be
obliterating or ...
<http://www.entrepreneur.com/article/0,4621,321263,00.html>


FOI challenges in Scotland 'exceed expectations'
DMeurope.com - Netherlands
Public authorities in Scotland are being challenged on withholding
information
requested under the Freedom of Information Act much more often than was
...<http://www.dmeurope.com/default.asp?ArticleID=7735>


IBM Unveils Software to Help Automate Records Management and ...
DMReview.com - New York,NY,USA
... records can be automatically declared, classified and managed ...
For
example, any documents and records stored ... additional related
content,
white papers, books and ...
<http://www.dmreview.com/article_sub.cfm?articleId=1027487>


BLUE Cross Wants Patient Files Online for TennCare Docs
B-EYE-Network - Boulder,CO,USA
BlueCross BlueShield of Tennessee wants to put TennCare enrollees'
medical
records online as ... The program would put the files on a secure
website
so doctors in ...
<http://www.b-eye-network.com/view/850>


EMERGING ASP Model Targets Health Records
ComputerWorld - USA
MAY 09, 2005 (COMPUTERWORLD) - As electronic medical records take center
stage in the effort to eliminate errors by physicians and bolster
patient
care, the ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/healthcare/story/0,10801,101597,00.html>


MISSING Backup Tapes Spur Encryption at Time Warner
ComputerWorld - USA
... A shipping container that held the 40 data tapes was lost on March
22, Time Warner spokeswoman Kathy McKiernan said. The tapes went ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/industrytopics/financial/story/0,10801,101594,00.html>


WHO Wants Your Stinkin' Identity?
Motley Fool - USA
... And just last week Time Warner (NYSE: TWX) said it misplaced a
cooler-sized
container filled with 40 computer backup tapes with the names and Social
Security ...
<http://www.fool.com/news/commentary/2005/commentary05050906.htm?ref=foolwatch>


SEC To Morgan: Cough Up The Emails
Institutional Investor (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... Document preservation is integral," the SEC official said. ... again
for the same charges based on a violation of a 2002 cease-and-desist
order
on email retention. ...
<http://www.institutionalinvestor.com/default.asp?page=1&SID=503998&ISS=14977&type=23>


PRESENT tense over archives
Yorkshire Post Today - Leeds,Yorkshire,UK
CAMPAIGNERS are continuing their fight to ensure York's historic
archives
remain in the city centre. York Council is starting consultation ...
<http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionID=1084&ArticleID=1021125>


PRESSURE mounts to open Holocaust records
Sacramento Bee - Sacramento,CA,USA
... But in December, the expanded 20-nation task force said a plan to
open
ITS' archives by year's end had "failed." A task force delegation that
traveled to the ...
<http://www.sacbee.com/content/politics/story/12862961p-13712379c.html>


BUT such techniques have drawbacks in part because:
FCW.com - USA
... Officials at the National Archives and Records Administration also
have an interest in Web harvesting as they develop NARA's Electronic
Records
Archives. ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article88797-05-09-05-Print>


COUNTY deeds now online
Wichita Business Journal - Wichita,KS,USA
... office's new interactive Web site went online at
www.sedgwickcounty.org/deeds,
allowing both companies and private users eventual realtime access to
documents. ...
<http://wichita.bizjournals.com/wichita/stories/2005/05/09/daily1.html?jst=b_ln_hl>


BARRINGTON auctioneer deals in history
Barrington Times - Barrington,RI,USA
... The papers, dating from the 1660s and 1670s, include deeds,
correspondence,
bills and other documents that record life during an important time in
Rhode Island ...
<http://www.eastbayri.com/story/283262429348800.php>


OGUN to Build Presidential Library
AllAfrica.com - Africa
A world class presidential library, in the league of Carter Centre, is
to be constructed in Abeokuta, Ogun State by the government. ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200505091227.html>


RECORDS Management Strategies for Success: the Records Management ...
eGov monitor - London,UK
Jamie Burton reports back on the Records Management Society's recent
annual
conference and the discussions on new strategies for successful records
management. ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/855>


BIOMETRICS: Getting Back to Business
ComputerWorld - USA
... able to lock down all workstations so that the Ctrl-Alt-Delete
function
won ... are in systems that control physical access to facilities and
keep records of time ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,101557,00.html>



PERILS of open registry policy now apparent
Daily Yomiuri - Tokyo,Japan
The Internal Affairs and Communications Ministry has established an
expert
panel on the open records system that is to hold its first meeting
Wednesday.
...<http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20050510wo81.htm>


BUSINESS Technology: Protecting Customer Data Is Good Business
Information Week - USA
... in the Security Screwup reality show, LexisNexis was perfectly happy
to (1) display full Social Security numbers in nonpublic (or public?)
documents, and (2 ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=162800279>


Nevada Appeal, Mon, 09 May 2005 4:05 AM PDT
State Archives lab offers new opportunities for saving history
http://www.nevadaappeal.com/article/20050509/NEWS/105090013/-1/rss02
F]or years, State Archives Manager Jeff Kintop studied how to recover
historic documents, repair the damage they had suffered over the years,
and
preserve them for both their historic value and for research.


InfoWorld via Yahoo! News, Mon, 09 May 2005 5:01 AM PDT
IBM automates records management
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/infoworld/20050509/tc_infoworld/59310_1
IBM pushed its data management and integration strategies forward last
week with automated records management software. It also said it will
send its
WebSphere Data Integration Suite, code-named Hawk, to beta testers next
month.


Public Opinion, Mon, 09 May 2005 9:07 AM PDT
Patient records still inaccessible
http://www.publicopiniononline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050509/NEWS01/505090308/1002
More than six months after the Cumberland Valley Mental Health Center
closed, patient files don't have a home. But the building at 533 S.
Main St.
may have a buyer.


FCW
Sun, 08 May 2005 8:19 PM PDT
Fugitive documents elude preservationists
http://www.fcw.com/article88797-05-09-05-Print
Harvesting techniques can be used for downloading software code,
images, text documents and any additional files essential for
reproducing a Web site
after the original site is taken off-line.



WGAL 8, Mon, 09 May 2005 7:57 AM PDT
Store's Floor Model Computer Loaded With Woman's Personal Info
http://www.thewgalchannel.com/technology/4465898/detail.html?rss=lan&psp=technology
Imagine getting a phone call from a stranger who knows your personal
information, including your thoughts. Find out how that happened to one
Colorado woman.


KTVU 2 San Francisco, Mon, 09 May 2005 8:02 AM PDT
Woman Lets Store Transfer Info; Customer Finds It On Machine
http://www.ktvu.com/technology/4465898/detail.html?rss=fran&psp=technology
A woman brought her computer to a major retailer, then found out that
workers had put her data on a machine that was sold.


Compliance Pipeline, Mon, 09 May 2005 10:58 AM PDT
Business Technology: Protecting Customer Data Is Good Business
http://www.compliancepipeline.com/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=163100263
Our insatiable appetite for customer data has overwhelmed our ability
or our willingness to match those efforts with increasingly powerful
privacy
initiatives, Bob Evans says.


Dallas Morning News
Archives will preserve small-town editor's big story
Ken Towery uncovered scandal that brought down political star
06:06 PM CDT on Saturday, April 30, 2005
AUSTIN – Map-lovers congregate daily at the Bob Bullock Texas State
History Museum to see Landmark Maps of Texas, an exhibit that reveals
our past through historically crucial maps, some dating back five
centuries.
Oddly, half a century ago, maps came spookily close to foreshadowing,
in a comic-strip sort of way, the approaching fall from grace of a
Texas political star, one-time apparent shoo-in candidate for governor.
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CNEWS.com
U.S. military security defeated by copy and paste
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CNEWS.com
Hidden text shows SCO prepped lawsuit against BofA
<<
http://news.com.com/Hidden+text+shows+SCO+prepped+lawsuit+against+BofA/2100-7344_3-5170073.html?tag=nl>>


Wall Street Journal
War Correspondence: Efforts Mount
To Preserve Soldiers' Letters, Emails
<< http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111524744771525128,00.html?>>

Houston Chronicle
Lacy, lent expertise to famed will cases
By LYNWOOD ABRAM
Lucile Peters Lacy, a renowned examiner of documents whose expertise
figured in notable will contests and other court cases, died Wednesday
in a Houston nursing home. She was 95.
<< http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/metropolitan/3171397>>


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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