RAIN 060503
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

Follow the E-Mail Trail
Mark A. Berman and Aaron Zerykier
Monday, May 1, 2006
A benefit of having e-mails produced in electronic form is that it 
permits a litigator to follow the "information trail" contained in the 
embedded "header" of an e-mail that would otherwise be unavailable from 
the printed copy of the e-mail. For example, to view header information 
in Microsoft Outlook, a user clicks on View and then selects Options.
<<http://www.law.com/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1146225613469>>

Document Retention in the E-Commerce World
Stanley P. Jaskiewicz
Friday, April 21, 2006
E-commerce Web sites' only constant is change. They must nimbly adjust 
prices and offerings on the fly to meet market conditions and customer 
profiles. And those aren't all of these sites' ongoing change 
requirements.
<<http://www.law.com/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1145538539912>>

Recovering Hard Drives
Craig Ball
Wednesday, April 19, 2006
When the sea reclaimed New Orleans and much of the Gulf Coast, hundreds 
of lawyers saw their computers and networks submerged. Rebuilding law 
practices entailed Herculean efforts to resurrect critical data stored 
on the hard drives in sodden machines.
<<http://www.law.com/ltn/pubArticleLTN.jsp?id=1145362823516>>

House caps copying cost of documents
Myrtle Beach Sun News - Myrtle Beach,SC,USA
... this state.". An FOIA audit last year found inconsistent copy fees
at law enforcement agencies across the state. Journalists seeking ...
<http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/news/local/144875
50.htm>

Unregulated shredding industry causes concern among operators
Great Falls Tribune - Great Falls,MT,USA
Demand for document destruction services is at an all-time high, driven
by high identity-theft rates and new rules requiring businesses to 
properly
dispose of ...
<http://www.greatfallstribune.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060503/BUS
INESS/605030331/1046>

Iron Mountain loses backup tapes again
ZDNet UK - UK
... In March last year Iron Mountain lost computer tapes containing the
personal information of about 600,000 current and former Time Warner 
employees.
<http://news.zdnet.co.uk/0,39020330,39266756,00.htm>

Feds claim new witness to destruction of Chicago patronage files
WQAD - Moline,IL,USA
... chief. And the prosecutors say that witness says he believes that 
index
contained politically sensitive city hiring records. Authorities ...
<http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=4854020&nav=1sW7>

New Witness Found in Daley Aide's Trial
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... already had said that Sorich ordered his secretary to shred copies
of patronage records and a ``computer liaison'' was ordered to delete
the electronic versions ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-5797276,00.html>


The Reality of a 'Paperless Society'
TechNewsWorld - Sherman Oaks,CA,USA
... e-mails, photographs, medical records, depositions, spreadsheets ...
that boxes and files occupy, significant ... online for information, 
documents,
commentary, pricing ...
<http://www.technewsworld.com/story/hardware/50302.html>

CIS must improve e-records management: GAO
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
The US Citizenship and Immigration Services is not doing an effective 
job
in managing the initial phase of its move from a paper-based filing 
system
to ...
<http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/40653-1.html>

Missing records breather for Balco
Calcutta Telegraph - Calcutta,India
... “It was informed that the files had not come ... According to 
highly-placed
sources, the relevant file is also missing from the records of the MP
government. ...
<http://www.telegraphindia.com/1060503/asp/jamshedpur/story_6175916.asp>

Probation records under surveillance
Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA
... department] has accessed records ... I can print a report" 
identifying
the employee. Mr. Harman said Tuesday that he has begun tracking the 
files
of two ...
<http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-tw
omenfolo_03pro.ART.State.Edition2.37e545d.html>


Iron Mountain loses backup tapes for its major customers
TG Daily - USA
Boston (MA) - Tape retrieval and storage company Iron Mountain has lost
the backup tapes for the Long Island Railroad (LIRR) and another unnamed
customer, the ...
<http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/05/03/ironmountain_loses_more_tapes/>

The Monitor, Wed, 03 May 2006 11:47 AM PDT
Privatisation Unit to digitise records
http://www.monitor.co.ug/business/bus05041.php
THE Privatisation Unit is to digitalise all public companies'
information records to protect them from loss. "We are required by law 
to preserve
public companies' information that we publicise," Mr Gary Agira, the IT
Manager for Privatisation and Utility Sector Reform Project (PU) said 
on April 28.

AllAfrica.com, Wed, 03 May 2006 1:33 PM PDT
Uganda: Privatisation Unit to Digitise Records
http://allafrica.com/stories/200605030822.html
THE Privatisation Unit is to digitalise all public companies'
information records to protect them from loss.

Federal Trade Commission, Wed, 03 May 2006 7:19 AM PDT
FTC Seeks Halt to Sale of Consumers’ Confidential Telephone Records
http://www.ftc.gov/opa/2006/05/phonerecords.htm
The Federal Trade Commission has filed federal court complaints
charging five Web-based operations that have obtained and sold 
consumers’
confidential telephone records to third parties with violating federal 
law.

Confidential police documents found outside downtown station
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
... it," he said. Dennison hopes anyone else who discovered confidential
documents on Princess Street will turn them over to police.
<http://www.cbc.ca/winnipeg/story/mb-police-documents-20060426.html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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