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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Kaiser Permanente Laptop Stolen
Consumer Affairs - USA
... read the minds of the thieves, both Montgomery and Kerry Kohnen,
Kaiser's vice president of business operations, claimed that the laptop
was
stolen for its ...
<http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/11/kaiser_laptop.html>
Ken Rodriguez: During police audit, 'shredding was going on eight ...
San Antonio Express - San Antonio,TX,USA
... "But shredding was going on eight hours a day. It was real
suspicious
because the shredding occurred during the time of the audit.". ...
Documents remain missing. ...
<http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/metro/stories/MYSA112906.03A.Rodriguez.
2f1823d.html>
New federal electronic-evidence rules catch lawyers off guard
Eagle Tribune - North Andover,MA,USA
... require attorneys to know how their clients store and destroy
electronic records and e-mail. Lawyers must be ready to discuss those
data-storage systems with ...
<http://www.eagletribune.com/business/local_story_333120519>
CA Faces Backup Flaw
Byteandswitch.com - New York,NY,USA
... "The trail of custody on tapes is always bad," added Karp,
highlighting
the high-profile storage snafus at Time Warner and Iron Mountain. ...
<http://www.byteandswitch.com/document.asp?doc_id=111568&WT.svl=news1_1>
District 300 aims for paperless files
Chicago Tribune - United States
... goal is to get rid of grade books and other paper files, said School
... the software would allow parents to have access to their children's
records, officials said ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/technology/chi-0611290198nov29,1,6247562.s
tory?coll=chi-techtopheds-hed>
Preserving The Story Of Lavaca County
Victoria Advocate - Victoria,TX,USA
... The group is hoping that eventually the records will be stored in a
designated area in ... Among the items that have caught her attention in
the files was a person ...
<http://www.thevictoriaadvocate.com/428/story/13105.html>
Official seeks to erase hard drive, Morgan commissioner alleges
The Decatur Daily - Decatur,AL,USA
... Why would someone want to delete something from a hard drive unless
they're concerned about something?". ... "Those servers have public
records
stored on them and ...
<http://www.decaturdaily.com/decaturdaily/news/061129/emails.shtml>
A forgotten figure from colonial era gets the digital treatment
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
... The project is being launched by the commission, the New York State
Library, the New York State Archives Partnership Trust, SUNY Press and
Johnson historic ...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--colonialpapers-
di1129nov29,0,2106522.story?coll=ny-region-apnewyork>
Electronic Health Records
Wall Street Journal (subscription) - New York,NY,USA
... Later, about 10 employers are expected to chip in $1.5 million each
to
construct a data warehouse to store and update the e-records. ...
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB116477185099435441.html?mod=googlenews_w
sj>
Immigration services bureau loses thousands of records
GovExec.com - USA
... The files, known as A-files, contain information such as arrest
warrants ... the Homeland Security Department, is responsible for about
55
million such documents. ...
<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1106/112906p1.htm>
Erasing Paper
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
Records management can be an onerous task, and as the public ... usually
has a massive intake of blueprints, contractor files and documents from
inspectors who ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/sup_story.php?id=101755>
Royal petitions placed online
UKTV - London,UK
More than 14,000 images from the series of ancient petitions held in the
National Archives have been placed on the Internet, most covering
requests
for the ...
<http://www.uktv.co.uk/?uktv=standardItem.news&aID=578748>
GAO Says Immigration Files Were Missing In 2005
All Headline News - USA
... A-files contain immigrants' applications and other documents and are
used as the main file to determine eligibility. Republican ...
<http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005669438>
Bulgarian Parliament Adopts Texts from Secret Files Draft Bill
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
Sofia.The Secret Files law defines the order of access, disclosure,
usage
and storing of the documents of the State Security and the intelligence
services in ...
<http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n100539>
Government Technology - Folsom,CA,USA
... In addition, the BPI will store selected scanned files for one year
as
a preventive measure, in case documents become corrupted or lost --
although upon ...
<http://www.govtech.net/magazine/sup_story.php?id=101755&story_pg=2>
Record shows death by frying pan
BBC News - UK
... Anne Rowe, county archivist of the Cumbria Archive Service, said:
"It's
great to ... autumn there are hundreds of events talking place in
archives
across the UK to ...
<http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6157611.stm>
Revenge of the killer fairies
Metro - London,UK
... document recently in their archives in Whitehaven, as part of a
national campaign to highlight the treasures to be found in local
history.
Archivist Anne Rowe ...
<http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=27217&in_page_id
=2>
HKMA examines controls over customer data protection
The Asian Banker (subscription) - Singapore
... areas where external contractors (including office maintenance,
cleaning workers, etc) and unauthorised staff can gain access to these
confidential documents. ...
<https://www.theasianbanker.com/A556C5/Update.nsf/0/C54AAC66C2E0928248257
2360008B705?Opendocument>
Hyundai accused of stealing data from Toyota
International Herald Tribune - France
... Kim's suit alleged that Shibuya was told to copy confidential
documents
from Toyota contained in filing binders to distribute to other Hyundai
officials. ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/28/bloomberg/sxhyundai.php>
Intellectual property theft by employees is an ignored risk
Continuity Central (press release) - Huddersfield,UK
... that management practices are badly out of step with today’s office
morals; 60 percent of workers admit to theft of confidential documents,
customer databases ...
<http://continuitycentral.com/news02929.htm>
Moments before the archive was thrown away
Ha'aretz - Tel Aviv,Israel
... All the documents that described this activity in Israel were
preserved
in the State Archive, but it was not easy to get a hold of them. ...
<http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/793993.html>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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