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RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news stories from around the world. IDENTITY theft of FDIC employees leads to bank fraud, union says GovExec.com - USA ... Last month, travel credit card data for about 80,000 Justice Department employees stored in a laptop was stolen from a travel agency's Fairfax, Va., office. ... <http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0605/061705p1.htm> LAW demands companies step up data shredding In Business Las Vegas - Henderson,NV,USA ... The nonprofit Opportunity Village provides document destruction services. Laura D'Amore, sales and marketing manager of Opportunity ... <http://www.inbusinesslasvegas.com/2005/06/17/feature.html> SOUND Document Retention Policies More Important Than Ever Mondaq News Alerts - World ... businesses should not interpret the case as sanctioning document destruction in the face of litigation. Relevant documents and electronic records should be ... <http://www.mondaq.com/i_article.asp_Q_articleid_E_33183> FILENET broadens storage and retrieval functionality eChannelLine - North York,Ontario,Canada ... "Combined with the release of the records management platform late last year, when that records management capability is coupled with this broader Storage ... <http://www.integratedmar.com/ecl-usa/story.cfm?item=19626> COUNTY to unveil rewritten open records policy Douglas County News-Press - Castle Rock,CO,USA ... Stigall said residents can pay for records request charges with cash, personal check, cashier's check, money order and perhaps wire transfers,. ... <http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=14712572&BRD=1585&PAG=461&dept_id=213470&rfi=6> KEEPING personal data under lock and key Financial Times - London,England,UK ... In February, ChoicePoint, a Georgia-based information broker, sent out letters to 35,000 California residents warning them of a crime committed against the ... <http://news.ft.com/cms/s/c8513d4e-decd-11d9-92cd-00000e2511c8.html> MASTERCARD breach hits 40 million accounts CNET News.com - USA ... data. Bank of America, ChoicePoint and Reed Elsevier's LexisNexis are some of the companies that have reported breaches. MasterCard ... <http://news.com.com/MasterCard+breach+hits+40+million+accounts/2100-1029_3-5751886.html> NATIONAL archives recovers Kennedy items Boston Herald - Boston,MA,USA ... National Archives Director Allen Weinstein says a settlement has been reached with the estate of Robert White for the return of thousands of pages of documents ... <http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=89810> REVEALED: Paris police war files Guardian Unlimited - UK The Paris police HQ is to open its second world war archives and allow the public to see for the first time the full extent of the force's collaboration with ... <http://www.guardian.co.uk/secondworldwar/story/0,14058,1509317,00.html> NEW home for photographer's work Waterford News - Waterford,Ireland ... the Mayor, Cllr. Seamus Ryan last week, is a highly significant addition to the materials held by the City Archives. In addition ... <http://www.waterford-news.ie/news/story.asp?j=18460> HACKER accesses files at Equifax CBC News - Canada Most of the files are for consumers from British Columbia. Equifax Canada uses data provided by banks to compile credit records on Canadian consumers. ... <http://www.cbc.ca/story/business/national/2005/06/17/equifax-050617.html> MASTERCARD Says 40 Million Files Are Put at Risk New York Times - New York,NY,USA ... "The processing companies are hubs for millions of payment records," said Chris Hoofnagle, senior counsel for the Electronic Privacy Information Center, a ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/06/18/business/18cards.html?hp&ex=1119067200&en=45e2098c1f471f3c&ei=5094&partner=homepage> PAPER records eliminated at new hospital Chadron Record - Chadron,NE,USA ... Turman said the servers, computer drives that store electronic records, have an "off-site backup" and there are contingency plans in case of electronic or ... <http://www.southernblackhillsweeklygroup.com/articles/2005/06/16/chadron/headlines/news884.txt> EXHIBIT chronicles US Jewish history Dallas Morning News (subscription) - TX,USA ... "Highlights!" said Gerry Cristol, congregational archivist for the ... when we get a good find," said Barbara Zale, who began volunteering in the archives in 1990 ... <http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/religion/stories/061805dnrelex.189e8269.html> A handbag? The Importance of Being Jack Times Online - UK ... It lies deep within Cambridge University's Churchill archives. ... in a custom-made box and can only travel if accompanied by the official archivist and with ... <http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,10652-1658874,00.html> D-Lib Magazine, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:39 AM PDT Digital Preservation http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/jantz/06jantz.html Developing preservation processes for a trusted digital repository will require the integration of new methods, policies, standards, and technologies. Digital repositories should be able to preserve electronic materials for periods at least comparable to existing preservation methods. Times Leader Fri, 17 Jun 2005 0:02 AM PDT Court?s file room goes online http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/local/11916718.htm The new electronic filing system will allow people to check documents from their computers. WILKES-BARRE ? When looking through records in the file room of the Luzerne County Clerk of Courts Office in the courthouse, people might feel frustrated, perhaps even claustrophobic. D-Lib Magazine, Fri, 17 Jun 2005 8:39 AM PDT A Standards-based Solution for the Accurate Transfer of Digital Assets http://www.dlib.org/dlib/june05/bekaert/06bekaert.html This article describes results of a collaboration between the Research Library of the Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL) and the American Physical Society (APS) aimed at designing and implementing a robust solution for the recurrent transfer of digital assets from the APS collection to LANL. In this solution, various recent standards are combined to obtain an asset transfer framework that EU May Move Forward With Data Retention Laws... Even If They're ... Mathaba.Net - Africa While it has rejected a planned "data retention" law, noting that it would probably be illegal based on existing privacy laws, it appears that the EU is still ... <http://mathaba.net/0_index.shtml?x=238328> EU Parliament rejects data retention plans ZDNet UK - UK ... involved. It has said it will introduce a new proposal for communications data retention with a different legal basis by the summer. ... <http://news.zdnet.co.uk/internet/security/0,39020375,39203034,00.htm> EUROPE'S data retention laws: dead or alive? Register - London,England,UK The European Parliament has voted overwhelmingly to back calls for proposed laws on data retention to be scrapped. If it were passed ... <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/08/data_retention_quandry/> EC wants to cap data retention laws Register - London,England,UK The European Commission has stepped into the debate on the proposed data retention bill, saying that the legislation will now require telcos and ISPs to hold ... <http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/06/02/ec_data_retention/> EC eases telcos' data retention fears Infoconomy - UK ... But the Commission still has an appetite for data retention, and it looks likely that communication service providers will in future be required to store data ... <http://www.infoconomy.com/pages/news-and-gossip/group107115.adp> Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]