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RAIN 20071114 Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management. A Fifth of Employees Store Corporate Files on Memory Sticks Response Source (press release) - London,UK Wokingham, Berkshire - 13th November 2007 - 55% of employees store work-related files such as emails, files and documents in locations other than a shared ... <http://www.responsesource.com/releases/rel_display.php?relid=35130&hilite=> Iron Mountain's outlook cut to negative from stable, ratings ... CNNMoney.com - USA S&P said it also affirmed the 'BB-' corporate credit rating on Iron Mountain and the bank loan and recovery ratings on the group's senior secured financing. ... <http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-20932177.htm> Weighing up archiving alternatives VNUNet.com - UK New rules on data retention, such as the Markets in Financial Instruments Directive (Mifid), are prompting many storage managers to take a closer look at ... <http://www.vnunet.com/itweek/analysis/2203293/weighing-archiving-alternatives-3628831> Several obstacles hold up release of Clinton records St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA Under the FOIA and the Presidential Records Act, exemptions include matters of national security and national defense; invasions of personal privacy such as ... <http://www.sptimes.com/2007/11/13/Worldandnation/Several_obstacles_hol.shtml> Clinton Library Documents Offer Plenty On UFOs, Little On Hillary Springdale Morning News - Springdale,AR,USA "Because any good X-Files fan is skeptical by nature and understandably so," Baker wrote the following day. The documents won't appease those who have ... <http://www.nwaonline.net/articles/2007/11/13/news/111407arclinton.txt> State Statutes Restricting or Prohibiting the Use of Social ... Mondaq News Alerts (subcription) - London,UK Recommended Practices for Protecting the Confidentiality of Social Security Numbers, Office of Privacy Protection, California Dept. of Consumer Affairs ... <http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=54306> Where Are the E-mails? Washington Post - United States Pete Yost writes for the Associated Press: "The Federal Records Act details strict standards prohibiting the destruction of government documents including ... <http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/blog/2007/11/13/BL2007111300956.html?hpid=opinionsbox1> Two Plead Guilty To Trying To Steal Trade Secrets From Company ... AHN - USA John Norris, 63, pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to steal trade secrets from The Imperial Group, which he was employed from September 1996 until ... <http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009148978> New twist in Rohm & Haas case Philadelphia Inquirer - Philadelphia,PA,USA By Bob Fernandez In the midst of a seven-year legal battle over trade secrets that pits scientist Mandy Lin against her former employer, the chemical giant ... <http://www.philly.com/inquirer/business/homepage/20071113_New_twist_in_Rohm___Haas_case.html> Marvel Comics Opens Portal to Its Archives E-Commerce Times - USA Marvel Comics is opening its archives to the public with the launch of the online subscription service Marvel Digital Comics Unlimited, ... <http://www.ecommercetimes.com/story/Marvel-Comics-Opens-Portal-to-Its-Archives-60299.html> Christie's withdraws reportedly stolen Russian archives from auction Interfax Russia - Moscow,Russia MOSCOW. Nov 13 (Interfax) - Christie's auction house has withdrawn from trading 41 documents the Russian cultural legacy oversight service Rosokhrankultura ... <http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/politics/28.html?id_issue=11906391> Tableaux brings campus back to life Sydney Morning Herald - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia WHEN Juliana Swatko discovered a box of glass negatives in the University of Western Sydney's archives last year, she sensed immediately they were important ... <http://www.smh.com.au/news/arts/tableaux-brings-campus-back-to-life/2007/11/13/1194766669589.html> Library reveals Auckland treasures Auckland stuff.co.nz - Auckland,New Zealand HIDDEN HAUL: This image was among Herman Schmidt's plate glass negatives saved from a Queen St demolition site by librarians. When a Queen St building was ... <http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/sundaystartimes/auckland/4271769a6016.html> Clinton Library Offers Peek at UFO Files The Associated Press - National Archives officials made several files -- ranging from a White House staffer's obsession with the TV show "The X-Files" to President Clinton's push ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gMKnoZi9qhYgIKngOVh3tuBEMtPwD8ST53A80> Blunt declines to answer questions about e-mail memo Kansas City Star - MO,USA ... office were inconsistent with any law or standard on record retention and I cannot comment on a document that any news outlet has so little confidence ... <http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/358345.html> Blunt declines to answer questions about e-mail memo Kansas City Star - MO,USA ... office were inconsistent with any law or standard on record retention and I cannot comment on a document that any news outlet has so little confidence ... <http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics/story/358345.html> Archive house special entities NKU The Northerner Online - Highland Heights,KY,USA The Special Collections and Archives began in 1972 to collect, document and archive both the history of the university and the surrounding communities. ... <http://www.thenortherner.com/home/news/2007/11/14/Features/Archive.House.Special.Entities-3098329.shtml> Man Charged With Trade Theft of Nike The Associated Press - ... advance copies of a Nike Inc. 2008 catalog and then offered to sell it to the competition has been charged with theft of trade secrets, the FBI said. ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g5HzbM2uUWPovwCua-aiiLml_czwD8SQL9SG0> Examining Source Code Evidence Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA The closed codes are trade secrets and protected by intellectual property laws. Their theft or misuse can lead to civil and criminal liability. ... <http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1194948247085> Company leaders allegedly defected to rival company with 900 ... Dark Reading - New York,NY,USA By Tim Wilson Two top executives of a major Korean electric power business illegally brought more than $1.8 billion in trade secrets with them when they ... <http://www.darkreading.com/document.asp?doc_id=139010&WT.svl=news2_1> The Clinton Files and the X-Files TIME - USA The first priority is requests pending under the Freedom of Information Act. And any potential political muckrakers must get in a line -- a very long line ... <http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1683666,00.html> Court Orders White House to Preserve E-Mail eWeek - New York, NY 12 to prevent the White House from destroying backup copies of millions of deleted e-mails that are at the center of a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit. ... <http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2216903,00.asp> Obama Says He Has No Illinois Records The Associated Press - ... Clinton file stored at the National Archives: an estimated 78 million pages of documents, plus 20 million e-mail messages, packed into 36000 boxes. ... <http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g48-NUdKkJRhRkkhogdQMTKSOi7gD8STLE0G0> INTERNET LAW - Authenticity and Management of Electronic Records IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA Does your company (or government office) have electronic record management policies that protect the authenticity of your documents? ... <http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1909> School boards lack privacy protection Globe and Mail - Canada The privacy of students' electronic records has become an issue for many districts across Canada as they make a transition to shared digital files. ... <http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20071114.wlmemory14/BNStory/Technology/home> Missouri should act to protect electronic messages Kansas City Star - MO,USA Gov. Matt Blunt appears to be thumbing his nose at Missouri's Sunshine Law. The public deserves to know if the law defining certain e-mails as public ... <http://www.kansascity.com/340/story/359832.html> S&P Lowers Iron Mountain Outlook Houston Chronicle - United States 2007 AP NEW YORK -- Standard & Poor's Ratings Services on Monday revised its rating outlook on records management and storage service provider Iron Mountain ... <http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/fn/5295111.html> INTERNET LAW - The FTC's Website Privacy and Security Rules for ... IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA Information collected through the Cartmanager software, including customer name, billing and shipping addresses, phone number, email address, ... <http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1905> Bush e-mail policy still the rule in governor's office Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA More recently, open-records advocate John Washburn of Milwaukee challenged the auto-delete policy by programming his computer to send two open-records... <http://www.star-telegram.com/state_news/story/302801.html> Whose records? Does medical privacy law hinder privacy? Journal Times - Racine,WI,USA By David Steinkraus A Journal Times editor went to the dentist, and when she picked her medical records folder off a reception desk to look at it,... <http://www.journaltimes.com/articles/2007/11/14/life/doc473a2f9ec1c96741856824.txt> ASPPA works on record keeper certification Pensions & Investments - Chicago,IL,USA The American Society of Pension Professionals & Actuaries is creating a set of certification standards for record keepers, Brian Graff, executive director ... <http://www.pionline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071022/DAILY/71022009> Cheryl Wintz Wtihrow, Margaret Brennan, Kenneth R. Bailey and ... Charleston Gazette - Charleston,WV,USA Fred Armstrong is the kind of public employee that should be encouraged, not dismissed. During his tenure at Archives, the public has had unprecedented ... <http://wvgazette.com/section/Opinion/2007111318> BU center to digitize King files Daily Free Press (subscription) - Boston,MA,USA The Howard Gotlieb Archival Research Center is creating the online MLK Jr. Archival Collaborative, a database that will let users search by subject and name ... <http://www.dailyfreepress.com/news/2007/11/14/News/Bu.Center.To.Digitize.King.Files-3100195.shtml> Guest column: Close court records, open can of worms Green Bay Press Gazette - Green Bay,WI,USA We hope the next stop for this bill is the shredder. Lovejoy is editor of the Racine Journal Times, where this article first was published. ... <http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20071019/GPG07/710190633/1273/GPGnews> -- Peter Kurilecz CRM CA Richmond, Va