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

Yorkshire Post, Mon, 20 Jun 2005 0:10 AM PDT
Scrapyard 'lump of wood' was war tribute
http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?SectionIDU&ArticleID 
60369
TO the many bargain hunters at a Wetherby junk yard it was just another
lump of wood that no one seemed interested in buying. rubbish dump 
right now.

IRON Mountain adds digital attack
Information World Review - London,UK
... The company is planning to use its muscle in the physical records 
storage
market to make a bigger impact in the e-records management and data 
protection
markets ...
<http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/news/2138372/iron-mountain-adds-digital>

IRON Mountain Expands Film & Sound Archives Services with ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... the world's trusted partner for records management and data 
protection
services, today announced the expansion of its Film & Sound Archives 
business
with the ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050620/nem004.html?.v=16>

PARIS: Police archives from Nazi occupation opened
Jerusalem Post - Jerusalem,Israel
The police prefect of Paris opened police archives from the period of 
the
Nazi occupation, which have been classified since World War II. ...
<http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1119234010897>

COPIES could be taxed by state
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... thousands of dollars obtaining copied information from government 
documents
and microfilm ... The Allegheny County recorder of deeds office charges
50 cents per ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05171/525167.stm>

SWITCHING to electronic medical records is necessary but costly
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... patient records at the point of care -- and let patients see those
records anywhere ... a specialist in the same day, they had to wait 
while
their files arrived at ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05171/525309.stm>

EXPERIAN Takes Charge of Consumer Data Abandoned in Kansas
Consumer Affairs - USA
... Com reported on June 16, tens of thousands of consumer records were
left ... owner of the building, Augie Bogina, has been trying to have
the files safely removed ...
<http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2005/experian_abandons02.html>

MOST agree it was worst event in county's history
Sherman Denison Herald Democrat - Sherman/Denison,TX,USA
... "Dickson explained that records of the ... Only recently the library
added to its files the Dallas papers' reports of the incident.' (Note:
This was written about ...
<http://www.heralddemocrat.com/articles/2005/06/20/commentary/iq_1869380.txt>

DOCUMENT Destruction in Business
Mondaq News Alerts - World
... look to the Limitation Act 1980 for how long we should keep files,
most professions ... There is no excuse for destroying documents, 
especially
as case after case ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_33213>

Australian IT, Mon, 20 Jun 2005 7:12 AM PDT
Tower's Trim cuts Science paper chase
http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,15672406%5e15306%5e%5enbv%5e,00.html
THE South Australian Department of Further Education, Employment,
Science and Technology has begun introducing a document and records 
management
system to be used by 4000 staff.

ITBusiness.ca Mon, 20 Jun 2005 2:02 PM PDT
Quebec court system digitizes its case files
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&lid=1&sid=59280
The province adopts a product suite that could one day lead to the
Web-based distribution of audio recordings. Find out how the Hell's 
Angels got
the project going

THE Metamorphosis of CA, Security? What Security?, The Problem of ...
IT Directors - USA
... profile data thefts from ChoicePoint, Lexis Nexis, AOL and the 
strange
outbreak of "we've lost the tapes" incidents involving Bank of America,
Citibank and ...
<http://www.it-director.com/article.php?articleid=12770>


DATA Security Requires A Group Effort
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... New protocols, Overnight shipping and notification for computer 
tapes.
... and some steps are being taken now, notably at two victims, Bank of
America and Visa. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/blog/main/archives/2005/06/data_security_r_1.html>

STORAGE Security Gains Spotlight
ComputerWorld - USA
... the loss of unencrypted data from companies such as Bank of America
Corp., Ameritrade ... months has been encrypting all data written to 
backup
tapes, using an ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,102621,00.html>

LEADER: How much more data loss can we stand?
Silicon.com - UK
... details. Prior to that we saw Bank of America lose more than one 
million
customer accounts when backup tapes went astray. Japanese ...
<http://software.silicon.com/security/0,39024655,39131279,00.htm>

MASTERCARD: 40M Credit Card Accounts Exposed
InternetNews.com - USA
... UPS lost data storage tapes containing the personal information of
3.9 million customers serviced by CitiFinancial. Bank of America and 
Time
Warner had similar ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/security/article.php/3513866>

FIERCE debate over privacy and electronic records in health ...
IDM.net.au - Strawberry Hills,NSW,Australia
... The HealthConnect project based in Brisbane is trailing the use of
electronic records at the moment, which involves trying many different
methods in security ...
<http://www.idm.net.au/story.asp?id=6468>

SECURETRIEVE Announces Release Of Free Trial Of Its Laptop ...
Emediawire (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
... com) announced today that it has just released a free 30-day trial
of its software that protects and retrieves critical files from a lost
or stolen laptop. ...
<http://www.emediawire.com/releases/2005/6/emw252810.htm>


ANOTHER Use For Wi-Fi: Finding Stolen Laptops
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... CyberAngel Security Solutions Inc., a provider of laptop recovery 
products,
is ... to help businesses and individuals identify the exact location
of stolen laptops ...
<http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=164901191>

CYBERANGEL partners with Boston company on laptop locator system
Nashville Business Journal - Nashville,TN,USA
... When an unauthorized user attempts to use a lost or stolen laptop,
the tracker sends an alert to CyberAngel's monitoring center. ...
<http://nashville.bizjournals.com/nashville/stories/2005/06/20/daily2.html?jst=b_ln_hl>

PRINT history to be preserved on microfilm
Calaveras Enterprise - San Andreas,CA,USA
A bit of local print history is being preserved thanks to Calaveras 
County's
archivist and a project put on by the Library of Congress and the 
National
...
<http://www.calaverasenterprise.com/articles/2005/06/20/news/news01.txt>

DEVELOPER, Diocese preserve the past
Press-Enterprise (subscription) - Riverside,CA,USA
... years," Monsignor Thomas Fitzgerald of Redlands, his friend and 
eulogist,
wrote shortly after Hahn's death, according to a book by an Inland 
diocesan
archivist ...
<http://www.pe.com/localnews/riverside/stories/PE_News_Local_D_cem20.18bb96.html>

LAWSUIT targets sales tactics at Hendrick shops
MSNBC - USA
... Hendrick shop could go into the computer system to delete the 
automatic,
but undisclosed, car-care charges on a specific deal. It also contends
records held by ...
<http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8284700/>

LASERVAULT Boosts Compliance Efforts with New Audit Log
IT Jungle - New York,NY,USA
... that archives and indexes spool files and other ... including 
password-protected
access to documents and LDAP ... The new audit log records practically
every event ...
<http://www.itjungle.com/fhs/fhs062105-story04.html>


SOFTWARE helps agency hit FOI target
Silicon.com - UK
... head of information systems and knowledge management at the LDA, 
said
the project started 18 months ago when the LDA hired a records manager
and started ...
<http://management.silicon.com/government/0,39024677,39131286,00.htm>

CREDIT Card Fraud
KABC - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Cardsystem Solution of Tucson, Arizona now admits they made a 
mistake
of holding on to computer records of credit card companies such as Visa
and Mastercard ...
<http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/news/consumer/062005_nw_credit_card.html>

DEBTORS' data get dumped
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... Businesses can violate the Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act
by failing to shred or burn paper documents and destroy computer 
records,
said Jen ...
<http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=14410>

REPORT challenges future access to digital museum, library ...
PublicTechnology.net - UK
... They include JISC, CURL, MLA, the British Library, the National 
Archives,
The Public Record Office of Northern Ireland, the National Archives of
Scotland and ...
<http://www.publictechnology.net/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=3104>

Wall Street Journal
Morgan Stanley Erred
On Key Date in Perelman Case
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111923120726763769,00.html?>

Wall Street Journal
Phisher Tales: How
Webs of Scammers
Pull Off Internet Fraud
<http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111922540322063658,00.html?>



Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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