Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.
PROTECTING Customer Data: Grappling With Lost Data, Broken Trust
Bank Technology News - USA
... Bank of America got the ball rolling on the Hill in February by 
losing
tapes containing 1.2 million personal accounts for federal employees,
including Social ...
<http://www.banktechnews.com/article.html?id=20051003NNLIJORR>

PANEL proposes electronic records
Jackson Hole Star-Tribune - Casper,WY,USA
... In addition, Jenkins said, electronic records might help prevent 
identity
theft because they wouldn't leave a paper trail. With ...
<http://www.jacksonholestartrib.com/articles/2005/10/12/news/wyoming/85f9
8d716fd8da86872570970080192e.txt>

BLAME shifts to officer over police files leak
The Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... The LEAP computer database contains the records of about 70,000 
offenders
and the ... which manages the technology -- to email 7000 pages of 
police
files to two ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/blame-shifts-to-officer-over-poli
ce-files-leak/2005/10/12/1128796587863.html>

EU ministers fail to agree on data retention
Expatica - Netherlands
LUXEMBOURG - European Union justice ministers Wednesday failed to reach
agreement on controversial calls for the retention of data on electronic
communications ...
<http://www.expatica.com/source/site_article.asp?subchannel_id=52&story_i
d=24416&name=EU+ministers+fail+to+agree+on+data+retention>

EU moves closer to a deal on new data retention law
International Herald Tribune - France
... backed away from their threat to use an administrative maneuver to
enact a law without legislative approval that would require data 
retention
for two years. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/10/12/business/data.php>

ASRC Management Services Wins Contract with United States ...
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... awarded a three year contract with a potential value of $3 million
 from The United States Department of Justice (DOJ) Office of Records 
Management
Policy (ORMP ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20051012005811&newsLang=en>

ASRC Management Services Wins $125M Contract with EPA
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... Mr. Lewis adds, "This contract incorporates the full spectrum of 
records
management services and further acknowledges ASRC Management Services
as an industry ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20051012005871&newsLang=en>


IRON Mountain Launches Email Continuity Service
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Iron Mountain Incorporated (NYSE: IRM), the
world's trusted partner for records management and data protection 
services,
today ...
<http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/1
0-12-2005/0004166463&EDATE=>

EMMERDALE Bosses Rage After Script Is Left In Pub Revealing ...
Entertainmentwise - London,UK
... information. "We are looking into how this has happened and 
reminding
our teams to take care with these confidential documents.".
<http://www.entertainmentwise.com/news?id=9194>

OFFICER to face action over leak
Australian - Australia
... Late last month, Victorian police were ordered to stop using the 
back
of confidential documents as scrap paper after one of the makeshift pads
of paper ...
<http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,16896694%2
55E1702,00.html>

ARCHIVIST works to set the records straight
Salem News - MA, USA
By Matthew K. Roy. SWAMPSCOTT -- Archivist and historian Phyllis Steele
makes her living in places dusty and long-ignored. "I have ...
<http://www.ecnnews.com/cgi-bin/05/snstory.pl?-sec-News+1k589gO+fn-swarch
ive-20051012->

NETAPP Wades Into Data Classification
Enterprise Storage Forum - Darien,CT,USA
... of data management services, including file tagging, 
copy/move/delete
commands and ... information to encrypted storage or copy valuable 
corporate
records into a ...
<http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/management/news/article.php/355578
6>


COURT hears arguments on new Open Records exception
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
... state to withhold records about the costs and manpower for a 
security
detail would set a dangerous precedent for Kentucky's longstanding Open
Records Act, a ...
<http://www.kentucky.com/mld/kentucky/news/local/12884077.htm>

FoxNews
Massachusetts Should Close Down OpenDocument
Friday, September 30, 2005
By James Prendergast
The broader media usually take little interest in public policy debates 
about technology, but they?re missing a big story in
Massachusetts.
The technology trades, blogs and industry are buzzing about a 
monumental policy shift in the Commonwealth of
Massachusetts. Officials in the state have proposed a new policy that 
mandates that every state technology system use
only applications designed around OpenDocument file formats (search).
<http://www.foxnews.com/printer_friendly_story/0,3566,170724,00.html>

YOUR Mail: Open Debate About OpenDocument
FOX News - USA
1) Massachusetts' argument was simple: they didn't want their public 
documents
at the mercy of one vendor's (Microsoft) planned obsolescence. ...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,172063,00.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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