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THE Shortcomings of an Archive-only Approach to Email Compliance
Sarbanes-Oxley Compliance Journal - Fairfield,NJ,USA
... being able to produce historical correspondence and satisfy 
retention
rules for ... Identify and document what information is needed to meet
compliance objectives ...
<http://www.s-ox.com/feature/detail.cfm?articleID=1259>

BEYOND the Water Cooler
ComputerWorld - USA
... that most companies need to take with respect to internal blogging
is to review their existing electronic communications and 
document-retention
policies to ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,10613
5,00.html>

NARA issues draft guidance for improving e-records management
GCN.com - Washington,DC,USA
The National Archives and Records Administration is seeking comment on
a draft guidance for improving electronic records management for all 
agencies.
...
<http://www.gcn.com/vol1_no1/daily-updates/37552-1.html>

TELLING tales of the tape
NetworkWorld.com - Southborough,MA,USA
... In May, for example, Time Warner said its offsite storage partner,
Iron Mountain, lost 40 back-up tapes containing the names and Social 
Security
numbers of ...
<http://www.networkworld.com/news/2005/111405widernet.html>

REMEMBER the titans
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette - Fort Wayne,IN,USA
... "We just don't go there," said Shelley Erwin, Caltech's associate 
archivist
who supervises the compilation of the interviews. ...
<http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/13163645.htm>

MEDICINE'S 'paper' addiction
Toledo Blade - Toledo,OH,USA
In this digital era, when documents are stored and retrieved ... 1 
obstacle
to a nationwide medical records system. ... be able to open each other's
files and exchange ...
<http://toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20051114/OPINION02/511
130303>

DIASPORA dispatches
Government Health IT - Falls Church,VA,USA
... Prescription records from SureScripts, which covers 23,000 of the 
country's
55,000 ... a thicket of state privacy laws, finally decided to delete
any information ...
<http://www.govhealthit.com/article91419-11-14-05-Print>

DUMPSTER Diving Presents Strong Opportunity For Identity Theft
KATV - Little Rock,AR,USA
... After searching the alleys of downtown Little Rock , dumpsters 
behind
some of Arkansas ' tallest buildings yielded many important and 
confidential
documents. ...
<http://www.katv.com/news/stories/1105/277477.html>

EUREKA clerk: City files need straightening
Bloomington Pantagraph - IL, USA
... "She is wanting to take more control of the city's files, which she
is entitled to since she is the keeper of the records," said Punke. ...
<http://www.pantagraph.com/stories/111405/new_20051114013.shtml>

DATA classification: A better way to prioritize stored files
FCW.com - USA
... formats, such as e-mail messages, word processing documents, 
spreadsheets,
electronic ... They simply dump all the files into the organization's
primary storage ...
<http://www.fcw.com/article91407-11-14-05-Print>

IT Execs Seek Cohesive Data Storage Policies
ComputerWorld - USA
... Gary Schwimmer, a data center operations manager at Los 
Angeles-based
Northrop Grumman Corp., said his company has developed a data retention
policy that ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/hardwaretopics/storage/story/0,10801,106183
,00.html>

FINNS to microfilm Stalin and Molotov archives
Newsroom Finland - Helsinki,Finland
... Joseph Stalin and Vyacheslav Molotov, the top Soviet leaders during
the second world war, Jussi Nuorteva, the head of the Finnish National
Archives Service (NAS ...
<http://newsroom.finland.fi/stt/showarticle.asp?intNWSAID=10747&group=Gen
eral>

New York Times
Auditor Admits He Falsified Roslyn Records
By BRUCE LAMBERT
GARDEN CITY, N.Y., Nov. 14 - The Roslyn schools' outside auditor has 
admitted that he slipped into the district office one night, at the 
behest of the superintendent, and altered records to hide from 
investigators some of the $11 million stolen from taxpayer funds.
<http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/15/nyregion/15roslyn.html


Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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