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

IDENTITY theft of FDIC employees leads to bank fraud, union says
GovExec.com - USA
... Last month, travel credit card data for about 80,000 Justice 
Department
employees stored in a laptop was stolen from a travel agency's Fairfax,
Va., office. ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0605/061705p1.htm>

LAW demands companies step up data shredding
In Business Las Vegas - Henderson,NV,USA
... The nonprofit Opportunity Village provides document destruction 
services.
Laura D'Amore, sales and marketing manager of Opportunity ...
<http://www.inbusinesslasvegas.com/2005/06/17/feature.html>

SOUND Document Retention Policies More Important Than Ever
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... businesses should not interpret the case as sanctioning document 
destruction
in the face of litigation. Relevant documents and electronic records 
should
be ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_33183>

FILENET broadens storage and retrieval functionality
eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada
... "Combined with the release of the records management platform late
last year, when that records management capability is coupled with this
broader Storage ...
<http://www.integratedmar.com/ecl-usa/story.cfm?item=19626>

COUNTY to unveil rewritten open records policy
Douglas County News-Press - Castle Rock,CO,USA
... Stigall said residents can pay for records request charges with 
cash,
personal check, cashier's check, money order and perhaps wire 
transfers,.
...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14712572&BRD=1585&PAG=461&dept_id=213470&rfi=6>

KEEPING personal data under lock and key
Financial Times - London,England,UK
... In February, ChoicePoint, a Georgia-based information broker, sent
out letters to 35,000 California residents warning them of a crime 
committed
against the ...
<http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c8513d4e-decd-11d9-92cd-00000e2511c8.html>

MASTERCARD breach hits 40 million accounts
CNET News.com - USA
... data. Bank of America, ChoicePoint and Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis 
are
some of the companies that have reported breaches. MasterCard ...
<http://news.com.com/MasterCard+breach+hits+40+million+accounts/2100-1029_3-5751886.html>

NATIONAL archives recovers Kennedy items
Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA
... National Archives Director Allen Weinstein says a settlement has 
been
reached with the estate of Robert White for the return of thousands of
pages of documents ...
<http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=89810>

REVEALED: Paris police war files
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The Paris police HQ is to open its second world war archives and allow
the public to see for the first time the full extent of the force's 
collaboration
with ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1509317,00.html>

NEW home for photographer's work
Waterford News - Waterford,Ireland
... the Mayor, Cllr. Seamus Ryan last week, is a highly significant 
addition
to the materials held by the City Archives. In addition ...
<http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=18460>

HACKER accesses files at Equifax
CBC News - Canada
Most of the files are for consumers from British Columbia. Equifax 
Canada
uses data provided by banks to compile credit records on Canadian 
consumers.
...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/06/17/equifax-050617.html>

MASTERCARD Says 40 Million Files Are Put at Risk
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
... "The processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records,"
said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy 
Information
Center, a ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/18/business/18cards.html?hp&ex=1119067200&en=45e2098c1f471f3c&ei=5094&partner=homepage>


PAPER records eliminated at new hospital
Chadron Record - Chadron,NE,USA
... Turman said the servers, computer drives that store electronic 
records,
have an "off-site backup" and there are contingency plans in case of 
electronic
or ...
<http://www.southernblackhillsweeklygroup.com/articles/2005/06/16/chadron/headlines/news884.txt>

EXHIBIT chronicles US Jewish history
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... "Highlights!" said Gerry Cristol, congregational archivist for the
... when we get a good find," said Barbara Zale, who began volunteering
in the archives in 1990 ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/061805dnrelex.189e8269.html>

A handbag? The Importance of Being Jack
Times Online - UK
... It lies deep within Cambridge University's Churchill archives. ...
in a custom-made box and can only travel if accompanied by the official
archivist and with ...
<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10652-1658874,00.html>

D-Lib Magazine, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:39 AM PDT
Digital Preservation http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/jantz/06jantz.html
Developing preservation processes for a trusted digital repository will
require the integration of new methods, policies, standards, and 
technologies.
Digital repositories should be able to preserve electronic materials for
periods at least comparable to existing preservation methods.

Times Leader
Fri, 17 Jun 2005 0:02 AM PDT
Court?s file room goes online
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/local/11916718.htm
The new electronic filing system will allow people to check documents
 from their computers. WILKES-BARRE ? When looking through records in 
the file room of the Luzerne County Clerk of Courts Office in the 
courthouse, people might
feel frustrated, perhaps even claustrophobic.


D-Lib Magazine, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:39 AM PDT
A Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets
http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/bekaert/06bekaert.html
This article describes results of a collaboration between the Research
Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the American 
Physical
Society (APS) aimed at designing and implementing a robust solution for 
the
recurrent transfer of digital assets from the APS collection to LANL. 
In this
solution, various recent standards are combined to obtain an asset 
transfer
framework that

EU May Move Forward With Data Retention Laws... Even If They're ...
Mathaba.Net - Africa
While it has rejected a planned "data retention" law, noting that it 
would
probably be illegal based on existing privacy laws, it appears that the
EU is still ...
<http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=238328>

EU Parliament rejects data retention plans
ZDNet UK - UK
... involved. It has said it will introduce a new proposal for 
communications
data retention with a different legal basis by the summer. ...
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39203034,00.htm>

EUROPE'S data retention laws: dead or alive?
Register - London,England,UK
The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to back calls for 
proposed
laws on data retention to be scrapped. If it were passed ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/08/data_retention_quandry/>

EC wants to cap data retention laws
Register - London,England,UK
The European Commission has stepped into the debate on the proposed data
retention bill, saying that the legislation will now require telcos and
ISPs to hold ...
<http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/02/ec_data_retention/>

EC eases telcos' data retention fears
Infoconomy - UK
... But the Commission still has an appetite for data retention, and it
looks likely that communication service providers will in future be 
required
to store data ...
<http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/group107115.adp>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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