RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news
stories from around the world.
WORST-CASE Scenario
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... Now the former CEO faces charges of receipt and possession of child
pornography and destruction of records in a federal investigation, which
is a violation of ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=165701102>
UK urges e-mail data retention
BBC News - UK
... "I mean a European standard, because in some member states there are
no data retention rules and no data retention possibility at all, and
that is a great ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4668903.stm>
LONDON attacks prompt EU to prioritise data retention
PC Advisor - UK
... an earlier proposal. Faull said the EC will present a proposal for
data retention "as soon as possible". The proposed directive ...
<http://www.pcadvisor.co.uk/index.cfm?go=news.view&news=4877>
LONDON attacks prompt EU to prioritise data retention
Computerworld New Zealand - Auckland,New Zealand
Jonathan Faull, director general of the EC's justice, freedom and
security
department, says it would present a proposal for data retention "as soon
as possible ...
<http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/0/2A7F0230FBE221E1CC25703A006C5544?OpenDocument&pub=Computerworld>
LEAVE That Old Data Alone
SQL Server Magazine (subscription) - Loveland,CO,USA
... Compounding the issue, in regulated industries data-retention
policies
are often dictated by law, not by the well-reasoned decisions of
management.
...<http://www.windowsitpro.com/Windows/Article/ArticleID/47003/47003.html>
EU split over antiterror phone data logging rules
ComputerWorld - USA
... EU interior ministers will discuss data retention at a special
meeting
on Wednesday called to speed up antiterrorism cooperation after the four
bomb attacks on ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,103120,00.html>
ARCHIVES were alerted about fake Nazi files
Telegraph.co.uk - London,England,UK
... year that forged documents had been smuggled into their records,
nine
months before an investigation by The Daily Telegraph found bogus
material
in two files. ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/07/12/nna12.xml&sSheet=/news/2005/07/12/ixhome.html>
Q&A on Storage Management
Computerworld Malaysia - Malaysia
The forum Making Storage Simple covered topics ranging from information
lifecycle management to the backup and archival challenges facing
businesses
today. ...
<http://computerworld.com.my/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=1961&pubid=4&issueid=57>
FATHER and son helping preserve company's history
Shawano Leader - Shawano,WI,USA
... "This is about preserving history.". They are also handling the
company's
glass negatives of early photos from FWD that go back to 1918.
<http://www.shawanoleader.com/articles/2005/07/11/news/news3.txt>
WYOMING woman archives stories of WWII fighters
The Casper Star Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
SHERIDAN -- ''The terror of death was chomping at my heels, chasing me
and there was no respite.''. Val Burgess recalls the spring ...
<http://www.casperstartribune.net/articles/2005/07/11/news/wyoming/8bbd82ffafc7bcb48725703a007c975d.txt>
RARE Photos Collector buys Civil War-era photos of Decatur
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... These are priceless," Morgan Archivist Susan Bzdell said. ... The
pictures
that Allen purchased may be seen at the Morgan County Archives on Bank
Street Northwest.
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/050712/photos.shtml>
VIEWS vary on records database
Record-Searchlight (subscription) - Redding,CA,USA
... sharing system, they won't be routinely searching through digital
files
from other ... states to combine data they have on people -- driving
records
and criminal ...
<http://www.redding.com/redd/nw_science_tech/article/0,2232,REDD_17538_3917667,00.html>
indieWIRE, Tue, 12 Jul 2005 6:47 AM PDT
Outfest and UCLA Launch "Legacy Project" to Preserve and Archive Queer
Cinema
http://www.indiewire.com/biz/biz_050712outf.html
Citing a need to preserve the history of gays and lesbians told through
important film and video work by queer filmmakers, and with a goal of
building a
publicly accessible library of films by and about gay, lesbian,
bisexual and
transgendered people, Outfest is partnering with the UCLA Film And
Television
Archive to create the Outfest Legacy Project for LGBT Film Preservation.
Rhea County Online, Mon, 11 Jul 2005 6:45 AM PDT
County begins process of creating digital archive of records
http://www.rhea.xtn.net/index.php?template=news.view.subscriber&table=news&newsid=122716
The Rhea County Finance Committee took the first step Wednesday toward
creating
computerized archives of all the county?s important documents.
ZDNet, Tue, 12 Jul 2005 1:02 PM PDT
Document security? It's a joke
http://news.zdnet.com/Document+security%3F+It's+a+joke/2100-1009_22-5785187.html?part=rss&tag=feed&subj=zdnn
Commentary--Workshare CEO Joe Fantuzzi says a run of security leaks
around e-documents is part of a worrisome trend.
Columbia Daily Tribune, Tue, 12 Jul 2005 12:06 PM PDT
File boxes fuel drive for space
http://www.showmenews.com/2005/Jul/20050712News001.asp
County considers private storage. Boone County needs to seek a
privately owned
site to cope with a combination of thousands of boxes of records and
dwindling
space, county and court officials said yesterday.
WTHR Indianapolis, Mon, 11 Jul 2005 3:10 PM PDT
Records at risk
http://www.wthr.com/Global/story.asp?S=3580986&nav=9Tahc0mp
Indianapolis, July 11 - What Chanta Quillen saw one evening after work
in a busy
public parking garage alarmed her. "You may as well lay your purse and
wallet on
the ground, I guess."
COMPLIANCE Services: Get What You Pay For
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... It's also vital to know what can be done in-house: Sometimes, with
a bit of training, a records manager can become a compliance officer,
overseeing a strategy ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=77126&WT.svl=column2_1>
70% archives show official documents to public
Xinhua - Beijing,China
BEIJING, July 12 (Xinhuanet) -- 2,367 national archives in China, 76
percent
of the country's total, have so far shown their official documents to
the public ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-07/12/content_3211374.htm>
OUTSOURCES Beef Up Email Archives
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... they're remote. On the other hand, doing it themselves gives
organizations
more control over their email archives. It's easier ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=77158&WT.svl=news1_1>
USC Says Applicant Files Were Hacked
WebProNews - Lexington,KY,USA
... exploited a security flaw in the application system and viewed about
ten files. ... single person where there is even the potential that
their
records might have ...
<http://www.webpronews.com/news/ebusinessnews/wpn-45-20050712USCSaysApplicantFilesWereHacked.html>
Corporate Lawyer
This is Spinal Tech
Amy Kolz
Corporate Counsel
05-20-2005
On June 17, 2004, Michael DeMane, the president of Medtronic Sofamor
Danek Inc., testified in a Memphis courtroom that he couldn't recall
receiving a 2001 spreadsheet. Wrong answer.
<http://www.law.com/jsp/cc/pubarticleCC.jsp?id=1116246909229>
Baseline
UPS Loses Financial Records, But Has a Bigger Problem
July 6, 2005
By Deborah Gage
The United Parcel Service invests more than $1 billion a year on
technology?smart labels, wireless handheld computers for drivers and
efficient delivery plans?to help its customers ship packages. But it
can't eliminate human error.
<http://www.baselinemag.com/print_article2/0,1217,a=155340,00.asp>
BANK account data goes missing in deliveries
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... It happened on April 28, about a month after Iron Mountain lost data
tapes containing the personal information of about 600,000 employees of
Time Warner. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/next/bank-account-data-goes-missing-in-deliveries/2005/07/11/1120934156845.html>
ACT now to save archives
Gloucester Daily Times - Gloucester,MA,USA
The city's archives, which date to at least its incorporation in 1642,
if not a few years earlier, could be the longest uninterrupted set of
municipal records ...
<http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/04/g/gstory.pl?fn-gedit12>
NEW Maine law makes sure you know what others know
Central Maine Morning Sentinel - Augusta,ME,USA
... Deborah Pelletier-Simpson, D-Auburn, for sponsoring the bill after
learning of a security breach at ChoicePoint Inc., a Georgia-based
company
that disclosed in ...
<http://morningsentinel.mainetoday.com/view/columns/1779854.shtml>
UK minister pushes data retention laws
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
... Data retention rules have shot back to the top of the EU's
anti-terrorism
agenda following the London bombings. UK Home Secretary ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/071205-data-retention.html>
JUSTICE ministers ponder data retention
ElectricNews.net - Dublin,Ireland
The issue of telephone records retention has been reinvigorated
following
last week's terrorist attacks on London, which left over 50 dead and
more
than 700 ...
<http://www.enn.ie/news.html?code=9618781>
STRAW presses MEPs on e-mail data
BBC News - UK
... liberties. But he asked MEPs to realise a "new balance" was needed
and they should remove the "blockages" to the data retention move. ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/4675273.stm>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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