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Wall Street Journal 5/16/05
Age of Discovery
How Morgan Stanley Botched
A Big Case by Fumbling Emails
In Perelman Suit, Judge Says
Firm Acted in 'Bad Faith';
It Blames Honest Errors
A Trove of Tapes in Brooklyn
In June 2004, a Morgan Stanley technology executive signed a court
document certifying he had handed over all emails the firm had agreed
to produce in a suit filed against his firm by billionaire financier
Ronald Perelman.
But two weeks earlier, the executive, Arthur Riel, hadn't been so sure.
"The storage folks found an additional 1,600 backup tapes in a closet,"
Mr. Riel told two Morgan Stanley lawyers, he recalled in a deposition
quoted in court papers. The tapes hadn't been searched for emails
before Mr. Riel signed the document, the firm acknowledged in court.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111620910505034309,00.html?>

New Australian law to ban e-mail monitoring
Computerworld Today (Australia) 5/4/05
Sandra Rossi, Computerworld Today
Australia's Workplace Surveillance Bill 2005, which will go through the
country's parliament on Wednesday,
makes it a criminal offense to read employee e-mails.
<http://www.itworld.com/Man/2690/050504emailprivacy/>

TechRepublic
The future of e-mail archiving
May 9, 2005
The corporate accounting scandals of the last few years spawned new
legislation, and increased enforcement of old laws regarding the
retention of company data. As a result, IT is under pressure to keep
more data for longer periods of time, and compliance with these rules
carries greater consequences for the entire life cycle of the data. But
many companies are still unclear on just what the legal parameters of
e-mail archiving are and what they should be doing to comply with
regulations. David Via of Ferris Research, a market and technology
research firm specializing in messaging and collaboration, agrees that
the parameters are still a little fuzzy because there is yet very
little case law or precedent on the books for many of the regulations.
<http://techrepublic.com.com/5102-1035-5695184.html>


NEW center houses Yellowstone collection
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
GARDINER, Mont. -A new center housing Yellowstone National Park's 5.3
million-piece collection of artifacts and archives is set to open this
week near the
...
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0516yellowstonehistory-ON.html>

A Seattle Company Opens the Door to History Previously Unavailable ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
SmallTownPapers works with publishers to create high-quality,
searchable,
on-line versions of newspaper archives providing quick and easy access
to the unique ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050516/sfm038.html?.v=11>

CALLS for Kerr letters to be brought to light
ABC Online - Australia
... DARYL MELHAM: Because this personal correspondence is not covered
under
the Archives Act, and the convention under the United Kingdom for the
Monarch is not to ...
<http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2005/s1369436.htm>

WHAT it should have been
Borneo Bulletin - borneo,Brunei Darussalam
... story "Call for preservation of history" published yesterday the
following
lines - An estimated 200 million hours of broadcast archives containing
invaluable ...
<http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/mon/may16h25.htm>

FAU Libraries Judaica Sound Archives receives gift of 3,000 ...
Boca Raton News - Boca Raton,FL,USA
... 3,000 mint condition 78-rpm Judaica phonograph records, packed away
in boxes for over a generation, have been donated to the Judaica Sound
Archives at Florida ...
<http://www.bocaratonnews.com/index.php?src=news&category=Local%20News&prid=11616>

DELAWARE Records Act Ruled Unconstitutional
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
WILMINGTON, Del., May 15 - A federal judge has ruled that Delaware's
Freedom
of Information Act is unconstitutional because it denies nonresidents
access to ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/16/business/16delaware.html>


IN-HOUSE turf wars hinder success of compliance projects
ComputerWeekly.com - UK
... turf war between IT and finance departments over the control of IT
spending and the impact of regulations such as the Freedom of
Information
Act and Sarbanes ...
<http://www.computerweekly.com/articles/article.asp?liArticleID=138487&liArticleTypeID=20&liCategoryID=2&liChannelID=105&liFlavourID=1&sSearch=&nPage=1>

NEW system eases access to records in deeds office
Greenville Daily Reflector - Greenville,NC,USA
... indexing information for records filed between May 6 and Jan. 1,
1989,
although full digitized files will not be immediately available for
those
documents. ...
<http://www.reflector.com/news/content/news/stories/2005/05/15/20050515GDRdeeds.html>

TEXAS Legislature Passes Open Government Training Legislation
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... the Texas Attorney General office to require each elected or
appointed
government official in Texas to complete a training course on open
records
and open ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/channel_story.php?channel=6&id=94001>

ZIPLIP Launches ComplianceAppliance
Information Week - USA
... managers. The unit contains the e-mail search and retrieval
capabilities,
and the policy control of the ZipLip Unified Archival Suite. ...
<http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=163103838>

GUARANTEEING that Public Documents Are Indeed Public
Inter Press Service (subscription) - World
SANTIAGO, May 16 (IPS) - Civil society groups are pushing for a broader,
more effective law guaranteeing public access to official documents in
Chile, a ...
<http://www.ipsnews.net/new_nota.asp?idnews=28704>

Daytona Beach News-Journal, Mon, 16 May 2005 11:37 PM PDT
Original racing hall envisioned long ago
http://www.news-journalonline.com/NewsJournalOnline/Speed/Headlines/03SpeedHEAD02RBIZ051705.htm
DAYTONA BEACH -- Burtcel Edgar Williams hawked certificates for $1 at
Riverfront Park, raising money to build a five-story, pink marble
Temple to Speed.

Time Warner Loses Employees' Personal Data
Fortune - USA
... While Time Warner knew of the missing tapes since March 22,
spokeswoman
McKiernan says that the company received guidance early on from the
Secret
Service that ...
<http://www.fortune.com/fortune/technology/articles/0,15114,1056707,00.html>

BRISTOL'S City Record Office helps to launch new archives database
eGov monitor - London,UK
Historians, academic researchers or those just interested in tracing
their
family tree will now be able to access millions of fascinating archives
at the click ...
<http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/959>

PITT Library System Receives Collection of Historical Mining Maps ...
Pitt Chronicle - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... Pitt archivists are assessing preservation needs for the mining
maps,
especially for some of the larger ones--four- to five-feet wide and 15-
to 20-feet long ...
<http://www.umc.pitt.edu/media/pcc/ULS_miningmaps_2005MAY16.html>

OPEN Records Training: Requirement will be good for whole state
Monitor - McAllen,TX,USA
... the state House and Senate that would require each elected or
appointed
government official in the state to complete a training course on open
records and open ...
<http://www.themonitor.com/SiteProcessor.cfm?Template=/GlobalTemplates/Details.cfm&StoryID=7268&Section=Opinion>

HOW to file FOIA requests
First Amendment Center - Nashville,TN,USA
The FOIA article by Taylor Holliday provides an introduction to the act,
as well as information on the Privacy Act, how to get started on an FOIA
filing, what ...
<http://www.firstamendmentcenter.org/news.aspx?id=14750>

PICKING the Right Media, Part 2
PC World - USA
... The discs are all made the same, but the archival media is held to
a higher quality assurance standard. Both discs include a 24-caret gold
substrate. ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/howto/article/0,aid,120833,00.asp>


RODEO secretary enjoys job that keeps her with family
Kansas City Star - MO,USA
... Professional Rodeo Cowboys Association records manager Tina Morin,
Colorado Springs, Colo., called Schneeberger "a great secretary.". ...
<http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/11668414.htm>

GREGOIRE signs bill on public records
The Olympian - Olympia,WA,USA
... Under House Bill 1758, state and local government agencies no longer
can reject a records request solely because it is considered "overly
broad"
or vaguely ...
<http://159.54.227.3/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/NEWS01/505170315/1006>

JERUSALEM museum looks at the Holocaust through Arab eyes
Independent - London,England,UK
... come to see the exhibition but to have Mr Mahameed look over some
legal
documents. ... Jews have paid their homeland as a price for the sins and
the deeds of the ...
<http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=638922>

Ohio News Network, Tue, 17 May 2005 1:40 PM PDT
Cemeteries lost over time because of incomplete records
http://www.onnnews.com/Global/story.asp?S=3357217
MAUMEE, Ohio -- Forgotten cemeteries like the one delaying a housing
project
near Toledo are common because records and maps are lost over time.
Forty graves
have been unearthed on the site of a former children's home that once
looked
over the Maumee River.

20% of UK workers use IM at the office
Telecom Paper (subscription) - Houten,Netherlands
... This includes employees sending sensitive information outside of the
company, allowing confidential documents to leak out of the enterprise
unmonitored; ...
<http://www.telecom.paper.nl/site/news_ta.asp?type=abstract&id=79364>

DISUK and Zycko sign exclusive agreement to protect data stored on ...
SourceWire (press release) - London,UK
... Bank of America confirmed that a small number of computer data tapes
were lost during shipment to a backup data centre. The missing ...
<http://sourcewire.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=21510&hilite=>

22 exemptions added to public records laws
Palm Beach Post - Palm Beach,FL,USA
... But this year, not only did legislative staffers include the
foundation
in their initial analysis of proposed public records bills, but Petersen
said the ...
<http://www.palmbeachpost.com/politics/content/state/epaper/2005/05/17/a6a_sunshine_0517.html>

SARTELL seniors destroy dangerous documents
St. Cloud Times - St. Cloud,MN,USA
... Leonard and Pat Paquette learned about the risks from AARP and
Consumer
Report magazines. They've been shredding documents for more than four
years. ...
<http://miva.sctimes.com/miva/cgi-bin/miva?Web/page.mv+1+local+360574>

STATE lawyer who shredded notes taught staff not to
The Tennessean - Nashville,TN,USA
... office. The curriculum makes no mention of shredding documents as an
option, and that is not taught in the course, Carpenter said. ...
<http://www.tennessean.com/government/archives/05/03/69573787.shtml?Element_ID=69573787>

SHRED day' takes aim at identity thieves
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
... A law requiring companies to properly destroy or protect documents
containing personal ... Jason Moreau, sales manager of Secured Document
Shredding, the company ...
<http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14538435&BRD=2288&PAG=461&dept_id=475621&rfi=6>

GREAT Shredder Event Shreds 32 Tons Of Paper
NBC 10.com - Philadelphia,PA,USA
... For six hours, the Shred-it trucks cranked, shredding everyone's
personal
documents. "This is awesome, seriously. This is great. ...
<http://www.nbc10.com/consumeralert/4495770/detail.html>

STOLEN car found; records still lost
The Register-Guard - Eugene,Oregon,USA
... personal identity records for 1,200 Comcast customers, but the
records
are still ... The paper files of customer service agreements were locked
in the trunk of a ...
<http://www.registerguard.com/news/2005/05/17/d2.cr.comcastfound.0517.html>


JUDGE: Mobile city court can't expunge cases from public files
Tuscaloosa News (subscription) - Tuscaloosa,AL,USA
A judge has ruled that Mobile's municipal court cannot expunge records
from its public files, but denied the Mobile Register's request to see
all the cases ...
<http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050517/APN/505171123>

STATE programmer accused of hacking was a 'satisfactory' employee
Rome News-Tribune - Rome,GA,USA
... Investigation seized his computers and is trying to determine what,
if any, other files may have been tapped besides the driver's license
records and whether ...
<http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?show=localnews&pnpID=680&NewsID=632660&CategoryID=11509&on=1>

DOCUMENTS Recovered
KVAL - Eugene,OR,USA
... the course of their investigation. All of the customer files appear
to have been recovered. However, police emphasize that affected ...
<http://www2.kval.com/x30530.xml?ParentPageID=x2649&ContentID=x50510&Layout=kval.xsl&AdGroupID=x30530>

PERSONAL Information Protection Act ensures Illinoisans will be ...
Illinois Government News Network - IL,USA
... The Governor proposed the legislation days after public disclosure
of a massive security failure in October involving Georgia-based
ChoicePoint,
which resulted ...
<http://www.illinois.gov/PressReleases/ShowPressRelease.cfm?SubjectID=1&RecNum=3965>

RECORDS management crucial to good IT governance
ITWeb - South Africa
... Organisers of the next IT Governance Forum have invited
international
records management expert Dr Bruno Wildhaber to discuss this topic at
the forum. ...
<http://www.itweb.co.za/sections/business/2005/0505170936.asp?A=GOV&S=IT%20Governance&O=FPIN>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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