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Wall Street Journal 6/7/05
UPS Loses Citigroup Customer Data
Missing Box Held Facts
On 3.9 Million Customers;
Blunder Likely to Fuel Furor
<< http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111807147451351811,00.html?>>
A historian brings a collection to the Columbia Public Library ...
Columbia Missourian - Columbia,MO,USA
... It is organized by subject, and files that contain ... and tried to
correlate photographs with published records. ... to glean the photos
and documents he eventually ...
<http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=14199>
BILL To Limit FOIA Exemptions Introduced
Editor & Publisher - USA
... Congress would no longer be able to use unrelated legislation as a
way to make "stealth exemptions" to the federal Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA), under a ...
<http://www.mediainfo.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1000952588>
RESEARCHER finds previously unknown Bach aria
CBC Newfoundland - Newfoundland,Canada
... Since 2002, Maul has been surveying central German archival
collections
for Bach material and documents. The Bach aria was among ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/arts/national/2005/06/08/Arts/bacharia.html>
CBC mines archive for new shows
Globe and Mail - Toronto,Ontario,Canada
... it's a room that McMillen fondly calls the "vault" -- and it's
roughly
6,000 square feet of space with more than 200,000 hours of CBC archival
film footage ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/ArticleNews/TPStory/LAC/20050608/RETRO08/TPEntertainment/TopStories>
FIRST Map to Name America to Be Sold in London by Christie's
Bloomberg - USA
... The last to be sold was included in a bound atlas and bought in 1991
by the Bavarian State Library in Munich for more than $1 million,
Christie's
said. ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=10000085&sid=a0IdZiQpAKZE&refer=europe>
HOLD Everything
Forbes - USA
... have no formal e-mail retention policy, according to Cohasset
Associates,
and 38% of all surveyed say they follow their document-retention
programs
"not ...
<http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0620/058.html>
HOW Humble BBS Begat Wired World
Wired News - USA
... Anyone nostalgic for those halcyon days can now thank digital
archivist
and filmmaker Jason Scott for BBS: The Documentary , a
five-and-a-half-hour
paean to ...
<http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,67776,00.html?tw=wn_tophead_1>
'007 spy suit' found in Nasa bunker
BBC News - UK
... suits made by Hamilton Sundstrand, were collected over the years and
dispatched to the Smithsonian, which serves as the official US space
programme
archivist. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4072798.stm>
COUNTY Records & Archives Upgrades Ahead
Devine Media - Rahway,NJ,USA
... a county-wide records management assessment, inventory and pilot
imaging
system implementation ($450, 000), the addition of a Records Manager
position
($77,733 ...
<http://www.new-jersey.ws/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=8008>
CITY Council purchase Annie Brophy Photographic collection
Waterford Today - Waterford,Ireland
... The Mayor of Waterford Councillor Seamus Ryan stated: "This is a
highly
significant addition to the collections held by the City Archives. ...
<http://www.waterford-today.ie/index.php?id=14792&what=1&issue=254>
ARCHIVES to close in Montgomery
Brewton Standard - Brewton,AL,USA
I want to begin this week by telling you about a press release that I
received
from the Alabama State Archives and History. For ...
<http://www.brewtonstandard.com/articles/2005/06/08/lifestyles/life03.txt>
AMERICAN Archives Thief Sentenced To Prison
Managing Information - UK
Howard W. Harner Jr. from Virginia pleaded guilty to the thefts in March
and admitted selling the documents to a private collector and in various
auctions. ...
<http://www.managinginformation.com/news/content_show_full.php?id=3919>
GENERAL Motors Executive Receives EMC Information Leadership Award ...
Yahoo News (press release) - USA
... partners include some of the world's finest research and scholarly
institutions, each of which has generously agreed to include the
Collection
in its archives. ...
<http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050608/new036.html?.v=9>
HOW Well Is Your Personal Information Kept By Your Bank?
KTRE - Lufkin,TX,USA
... name all of that information if it's discarded is done by
shredding."
says Alisa ... will email you with a story about needing to update your
files, or telling you ...
<http://www.ktre.com/Global/story.asp?S=3445869&nav=2FH5amXH>
BOXES containing documents relating to cases found 'disturbed'
Outlook (subscription) - New Delhi,India
... they were verifying whether there were any theft of documents
relating
to ... However, refuting such chances, police said the files relating
to Sankararaman murder ...
<http://www.outlookindia.com/pti_news.asp?id=303303>
HOLD Everything
Forbes - USA
... of the type most corporations use to back up their data files can
hold
... Deloitte consultants charge 20 cents per page to sort those
documents
so attorneys can ...
<http://www.forbes.com/free_forbes/2005/0620/058.html>
AUGUST trial sideswiped
Times-Standard - Eureka,CA,USA
... Instead, Schmidt kept the documents she had at home and turned over
two large accordion files of materials to her attorney Allison Jackson
last week. ...
<http://www.times-standard.com/Stories/0,1413,127~2896~2910010,00.html>
SEALORD info served fresh daily
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
... Various forms, files, policies and documents were stored in multiple
locations, folders and servers, and the task of updating them was
becoming
more and more ...
<http://www.istart.co.nz/index/HM20/AS3/CS27587>
SECURITY breaches push states into action
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
... have maintained that despite the loss of CitiFinancial data, it
would
be impossible for anyone without special software to open the computer
records on which ...
<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05159/517331.stm>
MISSING data is latest in rash of breaches
Baltimore Sun - Baltimore,MD,USA
... benefit programs. Time Warner hasn't been able to determine if the
tapes were lost or stolen, spokeswoman Kathy McKiernan said. ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nationworld/bal-te.bz.citi08jun08,1,7393212.story?coll=bal-nationworld-headlines>
GAFFE leaves Big Brown red-faced
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
... The latest oops involved tapes with data on 85,000 Time Warner
employees;
in December, it was credit card information on 1.2 million federal
employees.
...<http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/0605/08edtape.html>
NO spikes yet in local identity theft
South Bend Tribune - South Bend,IN,USA
... notifying nearly 4 million US customers that computer tapes
containing
account ... The announcement follows similar ones by Time Warner,
Wachovia
Corp., Bank of ...
<http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/2005/06/08/business.20050608-sbt-MICH-C8-No_spikes_yet_in_locX.sto>
DATA theft incidents leave firms challenged
Newark Star Ledger - Newark,NJ,USA
... Citigroup said United Parcel Service had lost computer tapes with
sensitive
... of financial data from more than 5 million consumers, including at
Bank of America. ...
<http://www.nj.com/business/ledger/index.ssf?/base/business-0/1118212382110620.xml&coll=1>
STALLED electronic records frustrate IT health sector vendors
Computerworld Australia - Australia
Government inaction on on the implementation of a national electronic
records
system continues to frustrate IT health suppliers. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com.au/index.php/id;507056649;fp;16;fpid;0>
QUEENSLAND now ridgy didge Beattie says
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
... The recovery of the birth certificate was the culmination of years
of detective work by historians and archivists, who unearthed Queen
Victoria's
documents in ...
<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=37278>
HOW Victoria saved Queensland from NSW
Brisbane Courier Mail - Brisbane,Queensland,Australia
... The Queensland State Archives has conducted a lengthy but
unsuccessful
search for the copy of the letters patent brought to the colony in 1859
by its first ...
<http://www.thecouriermail.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5936,15552655%255E3102,00.html>
Columbian Missourian, Wed, 08 Jun 2005 6:18 AM PDT
Presenting the past
http://www.columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=14199
More online: For more information on the Western Historical Manuscript
Collection in Columbia, visit www.umsystem.edu/whmc. Boxes of folders
filled with postcards, letters and family photographs sit next to
documents
wrapped in acid-free paper and tied with string.
Houston Chronicle, Wed, 08 Jun 2005 0:23 AM PDT
City court poised for paperless future
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/tech/news/3215948
Houston's municipal courts handle more than a million traffic
violations, parking tickets and other minor criminal cases each year.
For years,
that has meant lots of paperwork and long waits for the 5,000 people a
day who
form bustling crowds in the municipal courthouse on Lubbock.
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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