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BREAKING: California Judge To Rule County Must Rehold Election ...
Brad Blog - USA
They accordingly filed a motion to sanction the County for the
spoliation of the central evidence in their lawsuit and contest. The
County first responded ...<http://www.bradblog.com/?p=4811>
Saving ESI With 'Litigation Hold' Letters
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
... exploding costs of managing and storing vast amounts of electronic
data on the one hand and the specter of spoliation claims on the other
can be tricky. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1184231195691
>
SAP Admits to "Inappropriate Downloads" in Oracle Case
PC World - USA
SAP admits a subsidiary had access to 'inappropriate' documents after
Oracle accuses it of stealing trade secrets. SAP AG waited until almost
the last ...
<http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,134108-c,legalissues/article.html>
Discovery links A- Bomb to Benedictine University
Chicago Suburban News - Batavia,IL,USA
Many of the documents had "Top Secret" or "Classified" stamped on them,
so he jotted down the names and started checking the Internet for any
details. ...
<http://www.chicagosuburbannews.com/bolingbrook/homepage/x117549027>
Seattle loan documents scattered across Dallas
KING5.com (subscription) - Seattle,WA,USA
Along a busy street in Dallas, Texas a mobile shredding truck recently
lost some of its load. Among the scattered materials were unshredded,
easy-to-read ...
<http://www.king5.com/localnews/stories/NW_071207WAB_shredder_truck_loses
_info_KS.6bdaa8d9.html>
National Archives wiki cuts through catalogue complexity
Information World Review - London,UK
By Daniel Griffin 13 Jul 2007 Anyone who's ever used Wikipedia will
recognise how Your Archives works. The principles, layout and ethos are
all pretty much ...
<http://www.iwr.co.uk/information-world-review/features/2194195/national-
archives-wiki-cuts>
FSU police seize 67 boxes
FayObserver.com - Fayetteville NC,USA
... University police seized 67 boxes of records Thursday from a campus
warehouse after receiving a tip that improper shredding was about to
take place. ...<http://www.fayobserver.com/article?id=267320>
Corzine Administration Continues to Stonewall on Release of Asset ...
Politics NJ - Trenton,NJ,USA
"The failure of the Corzine Administration to comply fully with the
request for public documents is deeply disturbing. The Administration
has expended more ...
<http://www.politicsnj.com/corzine-administration-continues-stonewall-rel
ease-asset-sale-plan-documents-10296>
Storage spending at a crossroads
InfoWorld - San Francisco,CA,USA
Regulations such as the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) – which
outline discovery rules for electronic records in the event of
litigation -- are ...
<http://www.infoworld.com/article/07/07/13/28OPstorinsider_1.html>
Survey Reveals Organizations Are Unprepared For E-Discovery Requests
IndustryWeek - USA
New FRCP amendments make process more painful; more than half of IT
managers surveyed would rather have a cavity filled than fulfill a
request for ...
<http://www.industryweek.com/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=14560&SectionID=4
>
Judaic Sound Archive Preserves Heritage
Florida Jewish News - FL,USA
JSA has an extensive website and now alongside the archive in Boca
Raton, anyone can listen to these digitized treasures online. ...
<http://floridajewishnews.com/News/South_Florida/Judaic_Sound_Archive_Pre
serves_Heritage_200707131265/>
Hulton Archive on iStock . . .
Stock Asylum - Herndon,VA,USA
With little fanfare, Getty Images has uploaded to the iStockphoto
micropayment web site a small group of images from the Hulton Archive,
an important ...
<http://www.stockasylum.com/text-pages/articles/a5sm072007-get-hult.htm>
National Archive Thief Sentenced To 15 Months
Evening Bulletin - Philadelphia,PA,USA
Philadelphia - It was an emotional day in court Thursday when Denning
McTague, convicted thief of Civil War documents, was sentenced to 15
months in prison. ...
<http://thebulletin.us/site/news.cfm?newsid=18583774&BRD=2737&PAG=461&dep
t_id=576361&rfi=6>
Intern who stole & sold historic documents gets 15 mos.
Philadelphia Daily News - Philadelphia,PA,USA
By JULIE SHAW Calling an intern's theft of historical documents from
the National Archives in Philadelphia a wound inflicted on the "whole
American populace ...
<http://www.philly.com/dailynews/local/8481717.html>
Electronic Records Don't Always Improve Care
Washington Post - United States
Don't blast the medical records for that." Electronic health records
have been proposed as a solution to improving health quality in the
UnitedStates, ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/07/10/AR200707
1000487.html>
Kenya: Missing Files? Not Any More, Says Ag As Registrar Gets ...
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
... ensure that their records are in order and returns duly filed
within 30 days or they will face prosecution." He added: "Gone are the
days of files that ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200707130251.html>
Ex-Boeing worker accused of stealing documents
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
Gerald L. Eastman, 45, was accused this week of 16 felony counts of
first-degree computer trespass for putting highly sensitive files onto
a USB thumb drive ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2007/071307-boeing-employee.html>
There has got to be a better way
LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
In retrospect, much time, labor and money were squandered in vain
efforts to attract the George W. Bush Presidential Library and Museum.
...
<http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/071307/edi_071307014.shtml>
King's films to be restored
Variety - USA
By KONG RITHDEE To commemorate King Bhumibol Adulyadej's 80th birthday
in 2007, a project has been initiated by the Royal Palace and Thai
government to ...
<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117968530?categoryId=2619&cs=1>
Hamilton's hopes rest on paper trail
Daily Mail - UK
The British rookie's team have maintained that their suspended chief
designer Mike Coughlan took possession of the 780 pages of classified
information on ...
<http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/sport/motorsport.html?in_
article_id=468288&in_page_id=1954>
Collector gathers 17000 paper napkins, likely a record
Youngstown Vindicator - Youngstown,OH,USA
The plaque and letter from the record keepers lists her total at 5767,
but she has many more. "That's just when we stopped counting," Cernica
said.
...<http://www.vindy.com/content/local_regional/307075150822726.php>
Lawyers fined for releasing confidential 3M documents
Post-Bulletin - Rochester,MN,USA
When the lawyers realized they'd released confidential documents, they
asked the agency and the newspaper to return the documents. The agency
did, while the ...
<http://news.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?a
=300662&z=7>
MSD worker fired in security breach
St. Louis Post-Dispatch - MO, United States
The Metropolitan St. Louis Sewer District has fired an employee after
executives learned the employee had downloaded Social Security numbers
of about 1600 ...
<http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/stor
y/33EFD47679FB1BAF862573170067720F?OpenDocument>
E. Idaho woman selling antique negative collection
Twin Falls Times-News - Twin Falls,ID,USA
"I haven't heard too many people have collections like that," said
Steve Walker, state archivist with the Historical Society's Public
Archives and Research ...
<http://www.magicvalley.com/articles/2007/07/14/ap-state-id/d8qcio8o0.txt
>
Report: Order to secure state data issued 2 months before theft
WTOL - Toledo,OH,USA
In the e-mail, White said he wanted all files with Social Security
numbers to be moved to a secure directory. The backup tape containing
the data was stolen ...<http://www.wtol.com/Global/story.asp?S=6789343>
Personal data posted online after city's security slip-up
San Diego Union Tribune - United States
Social Security numbers were not included. The scanning was part of a
broader effort that began two years ago to store city records in a
computer database, ...
<http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/northcounty/20070714-9999-1mi14breach
.html>
Good housekeeping approval
Asbury Park Press - Asbury Park,NJ,USA
BY LAUREN O. KIDD TOMS RIVER -- In the six months that the township's
records manager has been sifting through rooms in town hall jam-packed
with
old files, ...
<http://www.app.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070629/NEWS02/706290466/
1070/ENT>
Vienna Jewish Archive Tells Tale of Nazi Annexation
NPR - USA
The Nazis systematically destroyed most Jewish records, while keeping
their
own detailed records of the destruction. Until now, historians have had
to
rely ...
<http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=11983444>
State auditor reports Edison missing information
The Review - East Liverpool,OH,USA
... district officials has been to provide information to all staff
members
about the policy on the destruction of school records, according to
Carmichael. ...
<http://www.reviewonline.com/News/articles.asp?articleID=8950>
Nixon library drops Watergate whitewash, gains federal archives
San Jose Mercury News - CA, USA
The revised account is a precondition for receiving 42 million pages of
the
former president's papers and nearly 4000 hours of tapes from the
National
Archives.
<http://www.mercurynews.com/breakingnews/ci_6349101>
Archives office safeguards city records
Bridgeport News - Shelton,CT,USA
The Bridgeport Department of Archives, Records and Information Services'
storage area comprises 20000 cubic feet, and was at capacity until March
when the ...
<http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18584450&BRD=1343&PAG=461&dept
_id=433660&rfi=6>
Crowded offices sow thoughts of expansion
Journal and Courier - Lafayette,IN,USA
... scanning the information into a computer, but that is not allowed in
many cases because the state doesn't yet consider computer records to be
permanent. ...
<http://www.jconline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070714/NEWS02/70714
0333/1152/NEWS>
It's time to promote and protect our tartan
Scotsman - United Kingdom
He confirmed that his officials were working with the office of the Lord
Lyon and the National Archives of Scotland to set up a register to
protect,...
<http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=1099442007>
Order to secure data ignored
Columbus Dispatch - Columbus,OH,USA
I want all files that can be identified with SSN (social security
number)
data put into a secure directory today. All new discoveries will be put
into the ...
<http://www.columbusdispatch.com/dispatch/content/local_news/stories/2007
/07/14/govmail.ART_ART_07-14-07_A1_6F79G8V.html>
Protests over German plan to close Stasi file
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
He envisages the files being integrated in the German Federal Archive,
where they would still be available to the public, without, however,
being subjected ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2007/07/15/wstasi11
5.xml>
E-mails show administration's response to data device theft
Akron Beacon Journal - Akron,OH,USA
The data storage device, stolen June 10, contained Social Security
numbers and other sensitive data of at least 859852 Ohioans, including
64000 state...<http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/17492996.htm>
WHEN ALL ELSE FAILS TAKE COVER IN THE INFOBUNKER
New York Post - New York,NY,USA
Billing information and clients' names are handwritten and stored in a
vault reducing the chances of incidents like corporate espionage.
...<http://www.nypost.com/seven/07152007/business/when_all_else_fails_tak
e_cover_in_the_infobunker_business_mabel_aragon.htm>
Information security Vs IT security
The Monitor, Uganda - Kampala,Uganda
This spying is referred to as Corporate Espionage (pronounce as
'es-pyon-azh'), which is as old as mankind. And if you thought this
sort of spying is ...
<http://www.monitor.co.ug/sunday/business/bus07152.php>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond, VA
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