RAIN 070410
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories
related to records and archives management.
Genocide Court Ruled for Serbia Without Seeing Full War Archive
New York Times - New York,NY,USA
However, lawyers who have seen the archives and further secret
personnel files say they address Serbia’s control and direction even
more directly, ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/09/world/europe/09archives.html?hp>
Cloak and dagger tactics hit the office
New Zealand Herald - Auckland,New Zealand
Significant numbers of New Zealand businesses are blissfully unaware of
how easily competitors can steal their trade secrets, security experts
say. ...
<http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=10433214>
Nearly 500 IRS Laptops Lost or Stolen Over Three Years
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
“We conducted a separate test on 100 laptop computers currently in use
by employees and determined 44 laptop computers contained unencrypted
sensitive data, ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=laptops&articleId=288505&taxonomyId=66&intsrc=kc_top>
Hortica Alerting Public to Loss of Backup Tapes
EDWARDSVILLE, Ill., April 6 /PRNewswire/ -- Florists' Mutual
Insurance
Company (Hortica), an Illinois-based provider of employee benefits and
insurance to companies in the horticultural industry, today announced
that
a locked shipping case containing magnetic backup tapes cannot be
located.
<<
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/04-06-2007/0004561025&EDATE>>
Wall St Journal
Wal-Mart's Firing Of a Security Aide Bites the Firm Back
<< http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117607979628363655-email.html>>
The Herb Companion
History In a Box
A discovery of pharmaceutical herb boxes leads to an adventure in
herbal and medicinal history.
<< http://herbcompanion.com/articles/04_05_07-history-in-a-box>>
Inside Higher Ed
Defining Privacy — and Its Limits
A student in a public university dormitory room had a “reasonable
expectation of privacy” for his personal computer and its hard drive, a
federal appeals court ruled on Thursday. The decision also found that
despite that right to privacy, an administrator in the case under
review had the right to conduct a remote search of the computer —
without a warrant — because of the circumstances involved.
<< http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2007/04/09/heckenkamp>>
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LubbockOnline.com - Lubbock,TX,USA
As a full-service professional records management company, Lubbock File
Room provides storage for all types of office records. For more than a
decade,
...<http://www.lubbockonline.com/stories/040907/ban_040907012.shtml>
GRAMMY Foundation Awards $650000 in Grants
PNN - Richmond,VA,USA
This project will digitally convert an aging, 4000 hour,
primarily-analog archive of interviews, live in-studio performances,
visual media and concerts.
...<http://www.pnnonline.org/article.php?sid=7370&mode=thread&order=0>
Privacy Advocate Pushes to Protect Data in Public Records
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Sure, these are open records at the courthouse, as well they should be.
But when we first started putting our records in these courthouses
hundreds of years ...
<http://computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&taxo
nomyName=security&articleId=288629&taxonomyId=17&intsrc=kc_feat>
AMD lawsuit hinges on lost Intel e-mail
FinancialWeek (subscription) - New York City,NY,USA
AMD hopes that the e-mails will help prove its claim that Intel has
been bullying computer manufacturers not to buy AMD microprocessors. ...
<http://www.financialweek.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20070409/REG/704
06020>
Eight Ways to Reduce Your Data Center Storage Costs
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
1 Information life-cycle management (ILM) is as much a management
philosophy as a technology and involves moving data to less-expensive
systems or ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&
taxonomyName=management&articleId=286057&taxonomyId=14&intsrc=kc_feat>
Access to concealed gun permit information cut off
Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press - Arlington,VA,USA
... as legal advice and cutting off public access to the information,
which was subject to 17 Freedom of Information Act requests over the
past two years. ...<http://www.rcfp.org/news/2007/0409-foi-access.html>
Kornbluh: The National Security Archive's Work in Latin America
Council on Foreign Relations - New York,NY,USA
He explains how the Archive decides what kind of material to pursue
under the Freedom of Information Act and how it has now started to help
Latin America ...<http://www.cfr.org/publication/13012/>
VA Takes the Lead in Paperless Care
Washington Post - Washington,DC,USA
Electronic medical records make confusing and physically unwieldy
masses of data instantly available, portable and searchable --
altogether more useful than ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/04/06/AR200704
0601911.html>
Researcher Records His Life On Computer
CBS News - New York City,NY,USA
But he's now saving his whole life on computer, from childhood
certificates to all his medical records. Memories make life richer, he
says. ...
<http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/09/eveningnews/main2665593.shtml>
The E-mail Trail
GovExec.com - Wahington,DC,USA
The RNC's policy, Stanzel said, is to delete e-mails every 30 days,
except for the e-mails of White House aides "who use the political
e-mail accounts the
...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0407/040907ol.htm>
Cannes archives available online
Variety - USA
By ALISON JAMES. A treasure trove of Cannes Film Festival archive
footage has gone online with the launch of a Web site created by the
festival and France's ...
<http://www.variety.com/article/VR1117962709.html?categoryid=13>
Naval Institute a treasure trove of naval photos, art and history
Annapolis Capital - Annapolis,MD,USA
"Our archives go back to the Civil War," said Mary Ripley, director of
naval heritage at the institute. Her father is retired Marine Col. ...
<http://www.hometownannapolis.com/cgi-bin/read/2007/04_09-15/TOP>
Hague court faulted for not using archives
Boston Globe - Boston,MA,USA
Serbia, the heir to Yugoslavia, obtained the tribunal's permission to
keep parts of the archives out of the public eye. ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2007/04/09/hague_court_
faulted_for_not_using_archives>
Why Use Marginal Email Programs When You Can Use Gmail?
Technology Evangelist - Minneapolis,MN,USA
Making a clean break from your email archives can be painful. While you
could boot up Outlook whenever you need to look up an old
conversations, ...
<http://www.technologyevangelist.com/2007/04/why_use_marginal_ema.html>
Efforts enhanced to preserve rare ancient characters
Xinhua - Beijing,China
In March 2002, Shuishu was listed in the China Archive Heritage chosen
by the State Archive Administration of China. Since then, great efforts
have been ...
<http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-04/09/content_5954173.htm>
Ice storm reminds businesses to plan for disaster situations
Springfield Business Journal - Springfield,MO,USA
In today’s business environment, off-site data storage is one of the
more critical components of a disaster and recovery plan. Make sure
that the data is ...
<http://www.sbj.net/weekly_article.asp?aID=39797063.4583232.1001143.87519
47.2539137.667&aID2=77002>
Wall St Journal
Computer Rooms Feel the Heat
IT Managers Find Novel Ways to Cool Powerful Servers
<http://online.wsj.com/article/SB117616055593064469-email.html>
Wall St Journal
Congress Follows Email Trail
White House Faces Queries Over Use Of Private Accounts
By JOHN D. MCKINNON
April 10, 2007; Page A4
WASHINGTON -- The widespread use of private email accounts by some top
White House officials is sparking a congressional probe into the
practice and whether it violates a post-Nixon law requiring that White
House deliberations be documented.
<http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB117615846511864432-NmVXNwrRJ662DF
aq_y0DtASOGjU_20080409.html?mod=blogs>
Washington Post
The Next Bush Scandal?
By Dan Froomkin
Special to washingtonpost.com
Tuesday, April 10, 2007; 1:34 PM
The slowly-unfolding disclosure that some White House aides use
non-government e-mail servers to conduct official business may soon be
reaching scandal proportions.
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/04/10/BL200704100
0832.html?referrer=emailarticle>
A Pushkin work rises from the Soviet scrap heap
International Herald Tribune - France
The mammoth undertaking by Princeton University, in conjunction with
the Russian State Archive of Literature and Art in Moscow, rescues a
production that
...<http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/04/10/europe/boris.php>
Guidelines for business record retention for commercial property ...
San Diego Daily Transcript (subscription) - San Diego,CA,USA
Aside from any business considerations that might be independent of
law, document retention is a matter of risk management. ...
<http://www.sddt.com/News/article.cfm?SourceCode=20070410crb>
Equine Library and Archives Donated to Kentucky Horse Park
EquiSearch.com - New York,NY,USA
He continued, “While libraries and archives may not garner the same
public excitement as international exhibitions, I feel that this
generous donation from
...<http://equisearch.com/equiwire_news/KHPLibrary040907>
MSNBC
Amp'd Mobile faces $100,000 fine
FCC says company failed to protect consumers' personal calling records
<http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17838767/>
It’s 11 O’Clock. Do You Know Where Your Sensitive Data Is?
Business Wire (press release) - San Francisco,CA,USA
ARMONK, NY--(BUSINESS WIRE)--In an era where the perils of information
theft are well known and paper shredding has become a part of daily
life for millions ...
<http://home.businesswire.com/portal/site/google/index.jsp?ndmViewId=news
_view&newsId=20070410005160&newsLang=en>
Mission: Impossible?
Fast Company - USA
... by the hour and which stores are selling most, the FBI still
largely relies on a paper-based system of records management and
internal communication. ...
<http://www.fastcompany.com/magazine/114/features-mission-impossible.html
>
Conspiracy or a paper tiger?
Scranton Times-Tribune - Scranton,PA,USA
While he admits the paper is shredded too finely to determine what
documents may be included, Mr. Kwiec finds the shredding suspicious.
...
<http://www.thetimes-tribune.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=18188495&BRD=2185&P
AG=461&dept_id=415898&rfi=6>
Affiliated Computer Services back in the news again
<http://www.pogowasright.org/blogs/dissent/?p=299>
By dissent
The package containing the CD was being shipped from an Atlanta office
of Affiliated Computer Services, a Dallas-based company which processes
claims for the health programs, to another company in Maryland, ACS
spokesman David Shapiro ... Chronicles of Dissent –
Lost disc puts 2.9M US Residents at risk for ID theft
iT News - Australia
A computer disc containing Social Security numbers and other sensitive
personal data on 2.9 million residents of Georgia has been lost,
according to the ...
<http://www.itnews.com.au/newsstory.aspx?CIaNID=49539&src=site-marq>
Lost Disk Puts 2.9 Million Georgia Residents At Risk For ID Theft
InformationWeek - Manhasset,NY,USA
A computer disk containing social security numbers and other sensitive
personal data on 2.9 million residents of Georgia has been lost,
according to the ...
<http://www.informationweek.com/news/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=19890044
6>
White House Can't Say If Lost E-Mails Include Firings (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
... House e-mails might pertain to the firing of eight US attorneys, as
Congress stepped up demands the Bush administration preserve electronic
records. ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aD2_5CGyrP9o&refer=h
ome>
Peter Kurilecz
Richmond Va
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