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Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories related to records and archives management.

Ireland: 80 Unencrypted Government Laptops Lost - Private ...
Zeropaid - San Diego,CA,USA
And of course you can ask them why, in light of this carelessness, they
should be trusted to bring in data retention." Professor Robert Clark took
the ...
<http://www.zeropaid.com/news/9253/Ireland:+80+Unencrypted+Government+Laptops+Lost+-+Private+Information+Feared+Lost/>

What Employers Should Know About Blogs
Workforce Management - Irvine,Ca,USA
Employees might post trade secrets or otherwise sensitive information about their employers, defame the business or its employees or engage in harassing or ...
<http://www.workforce.com/archive/article/23/96/90.php>

Software that helps erase the paper trail
New York Daily News - New York,NY,USA
Laserfiche consultant Tim Welsh said the program provides one central filing system for all records and scanned documents, including e-mail, PDFs and faxes. ...
<http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2008/02/11/2008-02-11_software_that_helps_erase_the_paper_trai.html>

Archives Offers Something for Everyone
EKUpdate - Richmond,KY,USA
EKU Archives, a department of the EKU Libraries, is lined with books and file cabinets containing letters and other historical documents from politicians, ...
<http://www.prm.eku.edu/Update/?issue=100&department=0&article=1128>

Those Missing E-Mails
Washington Post - United States
In reality, technical glitches with the Automated Records Management System (ARMS), created in 1994 in response to a 1989 lawsuit, caused the archival ...
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/02/10/AR2008021001918.html>

FTC Asked Again To Investigate Ask.com's AskEraser
MediaPost Publications - New York,USA
... purported deficiencies with Ask's new AskEraser tool, which touts itself as allowing Web users to delete records of their searches almost immediately. ...
<http://publications.mediapost.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=Articles.showArticleHomePage&art_aid=76200>

On Facebook, leaving is hard to do
International Herald Tribune - France
"It's like the 'Hotel California,' " said Nipon Das, 34, a director at a biotechnology consulting firm in New York who tried, unsuccessfully, to delete his ...
<http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/11/business/11facebook.php>

Custodian for your valuables
Standard - Nairobi,Kenya
Some the post-poll violence victims have no idea of how they will get
copies of original documents, like land title deeds, they have guarded
zealously for ...
<http://www.eastandard.net/index.php?mnu=details&id=1143981705&catid=351%20>

What happens when journalist and homeowner plays landman
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
It's Tarrant County's document search site, and it's pretty amazing. Deeds,
liens, releases and affidavits attached to property in the county are
available ...
<http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/465881.html>

Digging for clues to mineral rights
Fort Worth Star Telegram - Fort Worth,TX,USA
The separation can happen at any time, but subsequent deeds to the property
typically don't specifically address the issue. Instead, they may just
refer to ...
<http://www.star-telegram.com/business/story/465884.html>

Abraham Lincoln's paper trail
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
It was enough for Lupton and two other researchers to camp in the Macoupin
County records office and flip through century-old judgments and
water-stained ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-lincoln11feb11,0,2354979.story>

New niche for e-discovery: special masters
Daily Record (subscription) - Baltimore,MD,USA
... chair of the Electronic Discovery and Document Retention Team and co-chair of the Internet and Computer Technology Practice Group at Gardere Wynne ...
<http://www.mddailyrecord.com/article.cfm?id=4295&type=UTTM>

Some guidelines for disaster recovery
Computerworld - Framingham,MA,USA
To help them along, I gave them a list of possible consequences, such as
papers and local computer records that would be permanently lost. ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=312321>

University archivist in NC sorts history, one box at a time
The Virginian-Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
Jean Bischoff, the Elizabeth City State University archivist, tries to
spend an hour daily in the overstuffed room sorting through items. ...
<http://hamptonroads.com/2008/02/university-archivist-nc-sorts-history-one-box-time-0>

Career in history honors heritage
Indianapolis Star - United States
Documents of note: Wilma L. Moore, senior archivist of African-American history for the Indiana Historical Society, looks over maps of the state in the ...
< http://www.indystar.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008802110332>

Textile designers shift between digital and material worlds
HULIQ - Hickory,NC,USA
Anna Buruma, Liberty Archivist, textile historian, formally a costume designer for television and film was instrumental in putting the Liberty archive back ...
<http://www.huliq.com/50119/textile-designers-shift-between-digital-and-material-worlds>

Your e-discovery field guide
Jacksonville Daily Record - Jacksonville,FL,USA
The new team-related services include advice on: initial organization and
budgeting of the e-discovery team; records retention policies, litigation
hold ...
<http://www.jaxdailyrecord.com/showstory.php?Story_id=49422>

INTERNET LAW - Public Access to Court Electronic Records- PACER
IBLS INTERNET LAW (subscription) - Irvine,CA,USA
The United States Judiciary implemented a program called "Pacer" ("Public Access to Court Electronic Records"), to provide users with public access to case ...
<http://www.ibls.com/internet_law_news_portal_view.aspx?s=latestnews&id=1985>

Ex-Boeing engineer charged with theft of Space Shuttle secrets for ...
CNNMoney.com - USA
The indictment alleges that Chung took and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta ...
<http://money.cnn.com/news/newsfeeds/articles/newstex/AFX-0013-22936164.htm>

Cyberterrorism, Inc
ISN - Zurich,Switzerland
In 1999, North American companies lost more than US$45 billion to theft of trade secrets and other valuable corporate data, according to the SANS report. ...
<http://www.isn.ethz.ch/news/sw/details.cfm?id=18627>

Protecting Employees And Your Company
Mondaq News Alerts (subscription) - London,UK
For instance, Missouri has recently enacted a law that protects employees'
Social Security numbers. Finally, employees may try to claim an expectation
of ...
<http://www.mondaq.com/article.asp?articleid=57110>

Group removes thousands of records released in error
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
The group on Monday trashed thousands more county records CRG had displayed
that came from the Sheriff's Department, the House of Correction, the
district ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=716850>

European archives release vintage films online
Reuters - USA
By Charles Masters PARIS (Hollywood Reporter) - Where do you go if you want to watch rare archive films such as a 1916 document about life on a German ...
<http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSN1116907820080212>

How Sticky Is Membership on Facebook
New York Times - United States
By MARIA ASPAN Screengrab of the Facebook group "How to permanently delete
your facebook account" founded by Magnus Wallin, a 26-year-old patent
examiner in ...
<http://www.nytimes.com/adx/bin/adx_click.html?type=goto&page=www.nytimes.com/pages/dining/index.html&pos=Box1&sn2=4c95a023/c1af895c&sn1=b609f401/c355606c&camp=NYT2008-marketingmodule&ad=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M032-ROS-0208&goto=http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/technology/11facebook.html%3Fex=1218344400%26en=3509c270367a4099%26ei=5087%26WT.mc_id=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M032-ROS-0208-HDR%26WT.mc_ev=click%26mkt=TE-D-I-NYT-MOD-MOD-M032-ROS-0208-HDR>

Digital law and order
CIO Asia - Singapore
Most companies will say that all electronic and paper documents generated
by company employees on company property can become part of the e-discovery
record ...
<http://cio-asia.com/ShowPage.aspx?pagetype=2&articleid=7526&pubid=5&issueid=129>

Public record rules becoming paper tigers
Albany Times Union - Albany,NY,USA
Eliot Spitzer over access to executive branch documents in the ongoing
travel records investigation has highlighted an apparent gap in state law:
it doesn't ...
<http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=663019&category=FRONTPG&BCCode=HOME&newsdate=2/12/2008>

US Space Shuttle secrets 'were given to China'
Telegraph.co.uk - United Kingdom
The Justice Department said that a Boeing engineer was arrested on charges
of stealing trade secrets relating to the Shuttle and other aerospace
programmes ...
<http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/02/12/wspy112.xml>

Boeing engineer charged with stealing Space Shuttle secrets for China
Chicago Tribune - United States
Chung is alleged to have taken and concealed Boeing trade secrets relating to the Space Shuttle, the C-17 military transport aircraft and the Delta IV...
<http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-boeing-space-shuttle-ba-spy-0211feb11,1,1242946.story>

Man accused of giving China shuttle secrets
Guardian Unlimited - UK
He had security clearance to work on secret projects, but the FBI now alleges that he gave China trade secrets from Boeing relating to the shuttle, ...<http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2008/feb/12/spacetechnology.china>

Several arrested in Chinese spy sweep
Washington Times - Washington,DC,USA
By Bill Gertz The FBI and Air Force today arrested several people involved in the illegal transfer of trade secrets to China, according to US government ...
<http://washingtontimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080211/NATION/718249348/0/FRONTPAGE>

Ohio high court: Trade secrets need not be in writing
Port Clinton News Herald - Port Clinton,OH,USA
AP COLUMBUS -- Memorizing a company's trade secrets is just as wrong as
writing them down or copying them in some other format, the Ohio Supreme
Court ruled ...
<http://www.portclintonnewsherald.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080206/UPDATES01/80206026/1002/>

Anderson era is one for the history books
MiamiHerald.com - Miami,FL,USA
Anderson, who is Hollywood's official historian, has almost single-handedly
built the city's archive from her own personal collection of letters, ...
<http://www.miamiherald.com/news/broward/story/415358.html>

Virginia Tech Librarians Document Response to 2007 Shooting Tragedy
Library Journal - New York,NY,USA
Librarians at Virginia Tech (Blacksburg) are working to archive artifacts documenting the outpouring of grief and support in the aftermath of the tragic ...
<http://www.libraryjournal.com/article/CA6531213.html>

Quebec casinos' records could prevent suicides: activist
CBC Ottawa - Ontario, Canada
Clennett said the reports released by Loto-Québec show only a fraction of
the destruction wrought by the province's reliance on gambling. ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2008/02/12/ot-gambling-080212.html>

Federal judge allows limited probe into White House office in ...
JURIST - USA
CREW has publicly alleged that White House officials may have deliberately lost or tampered with e-mail records to hide illegal conduct. AP has more. <http://jurist.law.pitt.edu/paperchase/2008/02/federal-judge-allows-limited-probe-into.php>

Dust off the closed files, justice is opening up
Times Online - UK
A separate court held that new rules that allow the media and the public access to key court documents also apply to the documents used in judicial review ...
<http://business.timesonline.co.uk/tol/business/law/article3349333.ece>

Survey shows up 'document mayhem' in the UK
Techworld.com - London,UK
55 percent of employees store work-related files such as emails, files and documents in locations other than a shared computer network, according to the ...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/news/index.cfm?newsID=11399&pagtype=all>

Ex-Boeing Worker, US Employee Charged in Spy Cases (Update2)
Bloomberg - USA
In Virginia, Defense Department employee Gregg William Bergersen, 51, was charged today with providing classified documents to a businessman who ultimately ...
<http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=a8W_T6zj.7PM&refer=home>

Mistakes, Not Hackers, Are to Blame for Many Data-Security ...
Chronicle of Higher Education (subscription) - USA
About 100 of the incidents last year exposed Social Security numbers, involving a total of 1085708 records. The number of loose Social Security numbers was ...
<http://chronicle.com/free/2008/02/1609n.htm>

Iran to digitise Hyd state archives
Business Standard - Mumbai,Maharashtra,India
The Iranian government is sponsoring a project to digitise the state archives at Hyderabad, which has a 100-year-old history and holds manuscripts and books ...
<http://www.business-standard.com/common/news_article.php?leftnm=lmnu2&subLeft=1&autono=313490&tab=r>

Gresford mining disaster reports given new home
Evening Leader - Wrexham,Wales,UK
... Local Studies and Archives at Wrexham Museum. Solicitors Cyril Jones and Co made a donation of them to Wrexham County Borough Archivist Esther Williams. ...
<http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Gresford-mining-disaster-reports-given.3767877.jp>

Amid scandal, NY archivist calls for better record keeping
Press &amp; Sun-Bulletin - Binghamton,NY,USA
But Ward gave the most compelling testimony, warning that in the electronic age it's becoming increasing difficult to file documents in the state archives, ...
<http://www.pressconnects.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080212/NEWS01/802120364>