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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
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