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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.
White House e-discovery squeeze puts e-mail backup
in focus
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
He said that most business and IT managers fall short of creating adequate
e-mail archiving and policy-based data-retention processes. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9062642>
Don't Play Mind Games With Trade Secrets
Patent Baristas - Cincinnati,OH,USA
The Uniform Trade Secrets Act does not apply to the use of memorized
information that is not a trade secret pursuant to RC 1333.61(D). ...
<http://www.patentbaristas.com/archives/2008/02/14/dont-play-mind-games-with-trade-secrets/>
Get Smart About Analyzing ESI
Law.com (subscription) - San Francisco,CA,USA
Consider the newly amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP), which
went into effect last December. Rules 16 and 26 were amended to provide the
court ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/legaltechnology/pubArticleLT.jsp?id=1202904863398>
Auditors: Some sloppy record keeping in Cobb schools
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
Differences in record keeping between the local schools, general ledger payroll
reports and the Title 1 office "could result in expenditures in excess of
...
<http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/cobb/stories/2008/02/14/audit_0214.html>
Gregg pushes for improved electronic record-keeping
Boston Globe - United States
In addition to holding down costs, improved electronic record-keeping and
communications would reduce medical errors, lead to better care and give...<http://www.boston.com/news/local/new_hampshire/articles/2008/02/14/gregg_pushes_for_improved_electronic_record_keeping>
Sonics in e-mail skirmish
Seattle Post Intelligencer - USA
The NBA has also objected to the city's subpoena of some of its records in the
discovery process currently underway. A 34-page document filed to Judge... <http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/basketball/351428_arena15.html>
Namibia: Hendrik Witbooi Papers -
Reflection of Identity
AllAfrica.com - Washington,USA
"The significance of the documents is that it is one of the rare written
documents of indigenous Namibians that have been preserved," said
Hillebrecht from ...
<http://allafrica.com/stories/200802150345.html>
Lawmakers asked to delete court records of those
found innocent
New Richmond News - New Richmond,WI,USA
State lawmakers were asked Wednesday to delete the computerized court
records of those found innocent, or who had charges dismissed. ...
<http://www.newrichmond-news.com/articles/index.cfm?id=86050§ion=winews,Wisconsin%20News&property_id=19>
2 Civil War-era maps are discovered and shed light
on Will County
Chicago Tribune - United States
The twin 1862 plat maps, which were discovered in a county archive room
last fall, were in such poor shape that restorers needed to carefully
combine them, ...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-map_restored_15feb15,1,2285953.story>
Hawaiian royal documents to be auctioned in New York
Newsday - Long Island,NY,USA
They include original deeds signed by King Kalakaua (cal-uh-COW'-uh), Queen
Kapiolani (cop-ee-oh-LAH'-nee) and Kings Kamehameha (kah-may-HAH'-may-hah) III
...
<http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--royalauction0214feb14,0,887885.story>
SC Magazine
A data breach notification guideline to assist businesses and government agencies in the case of a significant data breach is currently in development, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner (OPC) has announced.
Digital law and order
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
... say legal experts and IT leaders who have already tackled the problem, is
to establish enterprisewide document management and retention practices for ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/021208-digital-law-and.html>
An instant classic
Guardian Unlimited - UK
The only drawback of the Polaroid was that it offered the shooter no insurance
equivalent to negatives or digital storage. Every shot was a one-off and, ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/feb/15/photography>
Inadvertent computer error places names of Texas
A&M System ...
AgNews - TX,USA
COLLEGE STATION - Computer records containing names and Social Security numbers
of 3000 current and former employees of two Texas A&M System agricultural
...
<http://agnews.tamu.edu/showstory.php?id=353>
Honoring President's Day at Bonhams&
Butterfields - Massive ...
Art Daily - USA
One highlight of the auction's Presidential section is a tremendous archive of
correspondence, unpublished candid family photographs and ephemera related to
...<http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23264>
Enforcing Copyright
Library Journal - New York,NY,USA
Here's a hypothetical example of Color: a library archivist, a participant in a
major scanning effort, has a certain famous author's notebooks. ... <http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6529387.html>
Hospitals challenge AG over dead inmate's records
Houston Chronicle - United States
By ROBERT CROWE The Harris County Hospital District is suing the Texas attorney general to keep private the medical
records of a Houston
inmate who died ...<http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5543790.html>
White House Reused E-Mail Tapes
The Associated Press -
The period of 2003 and 2005 is the time frame at issue in lawsuits seeking
information about possibly millions of missing e-mails at the Bush White House.
...
<http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hsG0My2Q3Eu9Sj2PSupnj4xeQXxAD8U73I302>
Company Email On Employee-Owned Cell Phones
Processor.com - Lincoln,NE,USA
"For example, most companies have, or should have, document retention
policies that also apply to email. If the email is replicated on a device
not owned by ...
<http://www.processor.com/editorial/article.asp?article=articles%2Fp3007%2F32p07%2F32p07.asp&guid=&searchtype=&WordList=&bJumpTo=True>
Stone Tablets to Digital Bits
Technocrat.net - Boston,MA,USA
Were is the 2000 year data storage method? Heck, where is the 200 or even
20 year storage method for all this data? Or..should humans even bother
anymore, ...
<http://technocrat.net/d/2008/2/15/36257>
Christian Science Monitor
<http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0214/p13s02-stct.html>
Continuing the myth that backups and archiving =
records management
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
Failure to ensure that IT practices are consistent with organizational records
management policies and retention schedules can result in costing ...
<http://blogs.computerworld.com/continuing_the_myth_that_backups_and_archiving_records_management>
Daily
Courier, Fri, 15 Feb 2008 8:02 AM PST
Southmoreland business manager provides alleged purged documents
http://pittsburghlive.com/x/dailycourier/news/s_552601.html?source=rss&feed=28
Southmoreland School District's business manager, Bill Porter, is back to work
after a two-day paid suspension while district Superintendent John Halfhill
investigated allegations that Porter had purged records related to a lawsuit
involving the district.
Data laws: protecting society or invading privacy?
ElectricNews.net - Dublin,Ireland
by Cian Ginty Data retention measures currently include the logging and
storing of data pertaining to phone calls and text messages, as well as
location ...
<http://www.enn.ie/article/10123901.html>
INTERVIEW-Theft of Petrobras data in Brazil may be espionage
Reuters UK - UK
N: Quote, Profile, Research) appears to be just one of a handful of
potential corporate espionage incidents involving a huge new oil reserve
off the ...
<http://uk.reuters.com/article/oilRpt/idUKN1559270320080215>
Building Commish Keeps File Under Wraps
Cape Cod Today - South Dennis,MA,USA
My experience with various town halls when it comes to getting copies of
documents is that a helpful person goes to the files, finds the document(s)
I want, ...
<http://www.capecodtoday.com/blogs/index.php/Gadfly/2008/02/15/building_commish_keeps_file_under_wraps>
Purchase by county bugs sheriff
St. Petersburg Times - St. Petersburg,FL,USA
It's record management. It's workflow to increase efficiency. ... It's the
ability to retrieve documents without going through 27 file cabinets. ...<http://www.sptimes.com/2008/02/16/Pasco/Purchase_by_county_bu.shtml>
Don't Dread the Rule 26(f) Conference
New York Law Journal - New York,NY,USA
... conference as a vehicle to challenge the reasonableness of your
preservation efforts, resulting in more spoliation challenges at the outset of
the case. ...
<http://www.law.com/jsp/nylj/PubArticleNY.jsp?&id=1203075904135>
Animal Care records have been found
Florida Times-Union - Jacksonville,FL,USA
Other records were found in a back room of the county's record storage
facility and three boxes of records were being used for an audit by a Clerk
of the ...
<http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/021608/nen_247109754.shtml>
EFF
Printer Tracking Dots may violate Human Rights
We've long been concerned about the human rights risks of printer tracking dots for anyone who publishes printed works with modern technology. Tracking dots are the secret marks that many popular color laser printers and photocopiers scatter across every document they touch. The marks, almost invisible to the eye, uniquely identify the printer that produced the document, and, as EFF uncovered, can even automatically encode the time and date it was created.
<http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/eu-printer-tracking-dots-may-violate-human-rights>
Fire of county records remains under investigation
Murfreesboro Post - Murfreesboro,TN,USA
Cause of a fire that slightly damaged county records remains under
investigation by the Murfreesboro Fire Department's fire investigator. ...<http://www.murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=9295>
History Thrown Away
WTHI - Terre Haute,IN,USA
"And Vigo county represents the most complete set of county records of any
other counties that exist in Indiana," said John Newman the Indiana
Director of ...<http://www.wthitv.com/Global/story.asp?S=7874875&nav=menu593_2>
30 jobs for city in rail records move
York Press - York,UK
"These records are a vital part of engineering background for Network
Rail," said the company's corporate records manager, Nigel Loadman. ...
<http://www.thisisyork.co.uk/display.var.2049873.0.30_jobs_for_city_in_rail_records_move.php>
Newspapers shed light on pioneer days in North
Georgia
Atlanta Journal Constitution - GA, USA
"Every library and archive has a backlog because we don't have the money
and staff," explains Michael Rose, director of the history center's Kenan
Research ...
<http://www.ajc.com/news/content/living/stories/2008/02/15/newspapers0217.html>
There was destruction of files in 90s but traces
remain
Focus News - Sofia,Bulgaria
For the first time the current Files Committee in contrast to previous ones
became an owner of all archive documents and this would allow the deeper
...<http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n133845>
Microsoft 'Frees' Office Formats
InternetNews.com - USA
"In the case of governments ... it may make the [legacy] binary file
format
documents more acceptable," Helm said. Microsoft has been struggling to
get
OOXML ...
<http://www.internetnews.com/dev-news/article.php/3728596/Microsoft+Frees+Office+Formats.htm>
Security clearance process still a paperwork
exercise
GovExec.com - Washington,DC,USA
The Government Accountability Office has classified the security clearance
process as a high-risk program. Jack Edwards, GAO's acting director of Defense
...<http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/0208/021508bb1.htm>
You've got mail ... and it's public
Brattleboro Reformer - VT, United
States
In addition, the office would look at how to clarify the open records law in
how it pertains to electronic records. "Because of the way we communicate
now, ...<http://www.reformer.com/ci_8279918?source=most_viewed>