Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. FBI cleans up its e-recordkeeping FCW.com - USA ... That program established recordkeeping standards for all the FBI's e-records systems and created protocols for testing those systems following the mishandling ... <http://www.fcw.com/article90260-08-22-05-Print> FIRMS Hit by ID Theft Find Way to Cash In on Victims Los Angeles Times - CA,USA By Joseph Menn, Times Staff Writer. Elizabeth Rosen was plenty angry when ChoicePoint Inc. sent her a form letter acknowledging that ... <http://www.latimes.com/business/la-fi-idprofit22aug22,0,3675766.story?coll=la-tot-promo&track=morenews> MDY Named Trendsetter by KMWorld PR Newswire (press release) - New York,NY,USA 22 /PRNewswire/ -- ILTA -- MDY, the leading provider of Records Management innovation, was recently selected by KMWorld as one of the top trendsetters for 2005 ... <http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT4&STORY=/www/story/08-22-2005/0004092195&EDATE=> SCANS oust paper Australian IT - Australia ... June next year. It wants a system to scan medical records, allowing destruction of the original paper copies. There will be four ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16350805%5E15321%5E%5Enbv%5E15306,00.html> JUST-DISCOVERED court documents 'are a living part of history' Durham Herald Sun - Durham,NC,USA ... After 10 to 60 years, depending on the type of documents involved, records are sent to Raleigh for microfilming, he said. ... "How they avoided destruction I'll ... <http://www.herald-sun.com/durham/4-638569.html> NET Firm Buys Online Census for £3.3m eGov monitor - London,UK The National Archives' online 1901 census has been sold to internet enterprise Friends Reunited for £3.3 million just three years after its disastrous launch. ... <http://www.egovmonitor.com/node/2413> HISTORIC Aerial Photos To Be Preserved And Made Available Online Westchester.com - Westchester,NY,USA ... photographs, mostly used by developers, recreation planners, reservoir managers and the like, are being scanned by staff at the Westchester County Archives. ... <http://westchester.com/Westchester_News/Westchester_Government_and_Politics/Historic_Aerial_Photos_To_Be_Preserved_And_Made_Available_Online_200508225576.html> FROM a Studio in Arkansas, a Portrait of America New York Times - United States ... The only prints of his work previously known to exist were made posthumously from about 3,000 glass negatives found in his studio when he died in 1959. ... <http://www.nytimes.com/2005/08/22/arts/design/22disf.html?hp> Seattle Times, Mon, 22 Aug 2005 12:18 PM PDT Court records system failure under review http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2002448058_courtrecords22m.html?syndication=rss&source=seattletimes.xml&items‘ King County court officials are considering hiring a consultant to examine the handling of a system failure that limited public access to... MEDICAL records Beaver County Times - Beaver County,PA,USA The Commonwealth Court ruled Friday that Pittsburgh-based Business Records Management will be the repository of records for Main Medical, an out-of-business ... <http://www.timesonline.com/site/news.cfm?newsid073154&BRD#05&PAGF1&dept_idG8569&rfi=6> EU data retention plan set for "climactic battle" Silicon.com - UK ... Alexander Alvaro, the German EU deputy responsible for data retention, said: "We expect the directive to be presented mid-September." The EC has said it would ... <http://hardware.silicon.com/storage/0,39024649,39151584,00.htm> KEEPING those historic emails Australian IT - Australia ... Myron Kerstetter says many companies are not free to decide their retention policies because they are dictated by law, but a data retention policy is essential ... <http://australianit.news.com.au/articles/0,7204,16323198%5E15400%5E%5Enbv%5E,00.html> NEXSAN launches secure compliance array ComputerWorld - USA AUGUST 22, 2005 (NETWORK WORLD) - Nexsan Technologies this week launched the first of its compliance and data retention devices that let IT professionals ... <http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,104101,00.html> THE ID theft protection racket CNN/Money - USA ... monitoring that gathers details on you in the LexisNexis public records database, which ... this year -- a bungle that in its case involved up to 310,000 files. ... <http://money.cnn.com/2005/08/22/pf/idtheft_0509/> WIRELESS hacker was bank insider SC Magazine - London,UK ... bank's security officer and he was arrested shortly after police established a link between the laptop and the ... Police said they have recovered the stolen funds ... <http://www.scmagazine.com/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=newsDetails&newsUID-053303-e9d6-42b1-83f7-4d7f3b8d5c5f&newsType=News Peter A. Kurilecz Richmond, Va [log in to unmask]