RAIN 070414
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
UPMC admits privacy violation
Pittsburgh Tribune-Review - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
"We can only apologize to patients for that, but hopefully they realize
we make an enormous effort to ensure that patient medical records
information ...
<http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/cityregion/s_502469.
html>
White House GOP-Sponsored Email Scandal Deepens; Karl Rove, Over ...
PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA
... US Politics Today, a non-partisan news service for political
professionals, offers extended news coverage of the White House e-mail
scandal. See: ...
<http://sev.prnewswire.com/computer-electronics/20070412/DCTH02212042007-
1.html>
NATIONAL ARCHIVES NAME PROJECT PARTNER FOR 1911 CENSUS DIGITISATION
24 Hour Museum - UK
The National Archives has moved one step further in its ambitious plan
to digitise the 1911 census records after they announced that internet
company ...<http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART46043.html>
Archives preserve history of Western
Western Courier (subscription) - Macomb,IL,USA
Jeff Hancks, Unit Coordinator, said the three areas include Special
Collections, the University Archives and the Illinois Regional Archives
Depository. ...
<http://www.westerncourier.com/home/news/2007/04/13/News/Archives.Preserv
e.History.Of.Western-2839687.shtml>
The Governor's Database
Texas Observer - Austin,TX,USA
More than $3.6 million has been spent on the project so far, and it
already has tens of millions of records. At least 7000 users are
presently allowed ...<http://www.texasobserver.org/article.php?aid=2472>
White House e-mail raises questions
Seattle Post Intelligencer - Seattle,WA,USA
Stanzel said he couldn't answer why people would delete e-mails, but
suggested some could have been interested in creating space on their
devices.
...<http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1151AP_White_House_E_Mail_QA.h
tml>
Did Karl Rove 'delete' four years of e-mails?
CNet News.com Blog - USA
... Committee now says it deleted Rove's power to delete e-mails. And
they say they did that back in 2005 to preserve records for use in
legal settings.<http://news.com.com/2061-10802_3-6175935.html>
Grant will help preserve records in Jefferson
Kennebec Journal - Augusta,ME,USA
The money, a joint award this month from the Maine State Archives and
the Maine State Museum, will be used for lighting, stairs and a doorway
to the
...<http://kennebecjournal.mainetoday.com/news/local/3800952.html>
Looking at the history of eugenics in Indiana
Indianapolis Star - Indianapolis,IN,USA
... bribing these people: 'If you consent to this, then you can get out
of here,' " said Vicki Casteel, visual collections archivist at the
state archives. ...
<http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070413/LOCAL/704130
513>
Lost: 5 million+ emails?
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Could high-ranking executives personally erase emails, in apparent
violation of document retention policies, without consequences? ...
<http://weblog.infoworld.com/robertxcringely/archives/2007/04/lost_5_mill
ion.html>
E-Mail Saga Gets Fishier
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
From 2001 to 2004, the RNC's highly unusual "document retention" policy
was to intentionally destroy all e-mails that were more than 30 days
old. ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/13/BL200704130
1125.html>
E-mails Lost, and Found, in the Attorneys Scandal
TIME - USA
But it's a safe bet that even if Congress and the media are temporarily
distracted by the current document dump and revelations like the
Federalist Society
...<http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1610414,00.html>
Stolen laptop has BofA employee data
Charlotte Observer - Charlotte,NC,USA
Bank of America's best known breach came in 2005 when it lost data
tapes holding customer information for 1.2 million federal employees.
... <http://charlotte.com/123/story/83747.html>
Tracy takes after the White House
Tracy Press - Tracy,CA,USA
To contact him about his weekly column, e-mail This email address is
being protected from spam bots, you need Javascript enabled to view it.
<http://tracypress.com/content/view/8746/2/>
RE: Those Missing White House Emails
Mother Jones - San Francisco,CA,USA
Beyond Rove's missing emails, and others the White House believes may
have been lost due to the RNC's email purging policy, it seems there is
another trove ...
<http://www.motherjones.com/mojoblog/archives/2007/04/4164_re_those_missi
n.html>
Lawyer: Rove Didn't Mean To Delete Email
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The issue arose because the White House and Republican National
Committee have said they may have lost e-mails from Rove and other
administration officials. ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6556054,00.html>
Court questions the ‘common practice’ of destroying documents
Delhi Newsline - Delhi,India
... in the case told the court that the required files were missing
because of police officials’ “common practice of destroying unnecessary
documents”.
...<http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=231568>
Files missing from city permit unit could lead to probe
Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
Each of the missing files contains permits, handwritten field
inspection notes and other documents that meticulously trace city
oversight of the projects, ...
<http://www.buffalonews.com/101/story/52739.html?imw=Y>
Tuned In: Friends of Fred Rogers share memories for oral history
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
Brother David Kelly, the Rogers Center archivist who is coordinating
the project, said the interview subjects represent a cross-section of
people who knew ...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07103/777587-237.stm>
Employees have a dangerously relaxed attitude towards laptop ...
Security Park - Winkfield,UK
Nearly a quarter had lost their laptop or had it stolen, with nearly
one in four of these having lost it more than once. Over 25 per cent
said they didn’t
...<http://www.securitypark.co.uk/article.asp?articleid=26654&CategoryID=
1>
Firms Prepare to Endure Next Storm
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Firms of all sizes have spent lots of money on hurricane-preparedness
-- from records storage to laptop computers to satellite phones. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1176368652366
>
Don’t discover that you haven’t e-archived too late
Pueblo Business Journal - Pueblo,CO,USA
... are causing businesses more headaches and increasing the costs of
complying with legal discovery rules and electronic records storage
regulations. ...<http://www.thepbj.com/story.cfm?ID=10490>
DHHS Finishes Investigation In Document Flap
WCSH-TV - Portland,ME,USA
The Department of Health and Human services says an independent
investigation into how confidential documents ended up in the public
domain is complete,
...<http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=57728>
Spanish documents on NMI now available
Saipan Tribune - Saipan,Northern Mariana Islands,Micronesia
... Culture and funded by a Council grant, involved locating and
photocopying Marianas-related documents held in the Philippine National
Archives in Manila. ...
<http://www.saipantribune.com/newsstory.aspx?cat=1&newsID=67411>
Recovering White House E-Mail Not Easy
Forbes - NY,USA
In March, Intel Corp. (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) said it may have
lost some internal e-mails that the chip maker was supposed to turn
over as possible ...
<http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/04/13/ap3611021.html>
Court Orders Intel to Cough Up Destroyed Antitrust Evidence
DailyTech - Chicago,IL,USA
Last year, AMD alleged that Intel destroyed evidence, particularly
employee emails in an anti-trust case involving monetary perks with
system integrators
...<http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=6854>
Keeping White House Emails
American Progress Action Fund - Washington,DC,USA
The Presidential Records Act (PRA) -- 44 USC section 2203 -- reads,
"Through the implementation of records management controls and other
necessary actions, ...
<http://www.americanprogressaction.org/talkingpoints/2007/04/presidential
_records.html>
Woman suspended for accessing cop files
Ninemsn - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
But sources told Fairfax the woman has been accused of wiping the
records of possibly hundreds of criminals and selling information from
confidential files.
...<http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=261119>
Now underground, personnel records will be a click away by ’09
Federal Times - USA
By the end of this year, she said, all 147000 or so file cabinets of
paper personnel files residing in an OPM-managed underground facility
in Northwest ...<http://federaltimes.com/index.php?S=2683394>
It's 'too late' to assure security of patient data
Pittsburgh Post Gazette - Pittsburgh,PA,USA
A Web site containing Social Security numbers and other personal
information for nearly 80 UPMC patients was still accessible on the
Internet yesterday
...<http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07104/777971-114.stm>
Former LA Social Security employee charged in ID theft scheme
San Francisco Chronicle - San Francisco,CA,USA
Authorities said she took $20 bribes each time she provided accomplices
with information taken from a government database that lists social
security numbers ...
<http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2007/04/13/state/n01094
8D08.DTL>
Wall Street Journal
White House Probes More Lost Emails
By JOHN D. MCKINNON
April 14, 2007; Page A3
WASHINGTON -- The White House, already under pressure to explain
missing emails from officials using a Republican Party system, says it
is investigating reports that many more emails might have been deleted
from its own system.
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117651545625969906-email.html>
New York Times
WASHINGTON | April 12, 2007
Bush Advisers' Approach on E-Mail Draws Fire
By SHERYL GAY STOLBERG
Some officials may have improperly used Republican National Committee
accounts for government business.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/12/washington/12emails.html?ex=1177041600
&en=0df0e591d596c5ff&ei=5070&emc=eta1>
Protesting the "Partisan" Bush Library
By Mark D. Tooley
FrontPageMagazine.com | April 13, 2007
Left-wing faculty at Southern Methodist University (SMU) in Dallas have
largely lost their battle to prevent SMU, with permission from the
United Methodist Church, from hosting a proposed George W. Bush
presidential library. So now these same professors are targeting the
proposed “partisan” institute that will accompany the Bush library.
<http://www.frontpagemagazine.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=27817>
Ky. to retain all court records, courts chief says
Kentucky.com - Lexington,KY,USA
Kentucky will retain all court records forever, a move made criticism
of the destruction of tens of thousands of old files from Louisville,
the state's top ...<http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/42632.html>
White House Doesn't Know Number of Missing E-Mails (Update1)
Bloomberg - USA
She also denied there was deliberate destruction of records. ``We've
seen no basis to conclude that there was any intentional wrongdoing
with the use of ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601070&sid=awSNhQ.he1yQ&refer=h
ome>
Ken Thomas charged after archives building row
Stabroek News - Georgetown,Guyana
A building contractor who allegedly kept over $7 million in materials
entrusted to him after he built the new National Archives was yesterday
granted ...
<http://www.stabroeknews.com/index.pl/article_general_news?id=56518139>
New Western Archives photos offer unique view of early working ...
Western News - London,Ontario,Canada
A history of London rarely seen is at the core of a collection of
vintage photographs recently donated to Western Archives.
...<http://communications.uwo.ca/western_news/story.html?listing_id=23081
>
'Delete' Doesn't Mean 'Disappear'
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
When you hit the delete key, your mail program can just update its
internal records to mark that message's location as vacant. You could
say it conveniently ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/13/AR200704
1301913.html?hpid=sec-tech>
White House E-Mail Probably Not 'Lost Forever'
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
... were reportedly deleted in compliance with the RNC's document
retention policy, which is to purge all servers of e-mail messages
after 30 days. ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19900099
0>
Bush library offers speech downloads
Houston Chronicle - Houston,TX,USA
For the first time, the George Bush Presidential Library Center at
Texas A&M University is opening its archives to offer the public a way
to download major
...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4713956.html>
St. Kitts Archivist Contributes To Abolition Commemoration In Britain
Democrat Newspaper - Basseterre,St. Kitts and Nevis
The Director of Archives and Records Management, Victoria O Flaherty
has just returned from a visit to England where the activities
commemorating the 200 th ...
<http://www.pamdemocrat.org/Newspaper/Details.cfm?Nz=%247GIJ2%20%20%20%0A
&Iz=%24(2%40H%23P%20%20%0A>
Web site shows rare documents
Daily Herald - Provo,UT,USA
The National Archives holds 9 billion pages of documents, some still
classified, and it has no money to turn them into digital images, so it
readily agreed ...<http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/218014/3/>
Archival treasures trace local history
Dundas Star - Dundas,Ontario,Canada
The items on display are representative of the museum's extensive
collection, and Sandra Kiemele, the museum's archivist, hopes many will
have the ...<http://www.dundasstarnews.com/dsn/news/news_763801.html>
Trade secrets stolen at firm
Lancashire Evening Telegraph - UK
"But the theft involved hard drives from some of our servers which had
the potential to create some major issues for the business and its
customers; ...
<http://www.lancashireeveningtelegraph.co.uk/mostpopular.var.1327328.most
viewed.trade_secrets_stolen_at_firm.php>
Pioneer Press accuses ex-publisher of fraud, theft
Pioneer Press - St. Paul,MN,USA
It claims, among other things, Ridder committed fraud and civil theft,
and disclosed trade secrets. The suit details a tawdry end to the
Ridder family's ...<http://www.twincities.com/allheadlines/ci_5655545>
Titanic's passenger list goes online
Stuff.co.nz - Wellington,New Zealand
A spokesman for findmypast said the lists were considered so
high-profile by the National Archives that they qualified for the same
level of security as ...<http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/4027187a28.html>
Utah Company A Part Of History With New Website
KUTV - Salt Lake City,UT,USA
Starting with the most significant ones from the National Archives, it
already has amassed some 7 million pages of documents. ...
<http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_104171304.html>
US Government Agencies Facing Records Management Rules Need ...
Earthtimes.org - USA
Government agencies have been faced with the difficult challenge of
ensuring enterprise-wide consistency in records management as a result
of the Federal
...<http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/news_press_release,87846.shtm
l>
With Updated E-Discovery Regulations, Employers Must Face New Battle
Workforce Management - Irvine,Ca,USA
Given this volume of information, employers might also consider
establishing a records management department. Even for small employers,
it could be the most
...<http://www.workforce.com/section/03/feature/24/85/57/>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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