RAIN (Records/Archives In the News) is a daily compilation of news 
stories from around the world.
CYBERSCRUB Updates Secure Data Shredding Tool
Enterprise IT Planet - Darien,CT,USA
... As it turns out, deleted files typically remain stored on the drive
waiting to be overwritten. The danger in this approach is that ...
<http://www.enterpriseitplanet.com/security/news/article.php/3490296>

NEW Study Shows Limited Use of Electronic Medical Records
Center for Disease Control - USA
... The use of electronic records in health care lags far behind the 
computerization
of information in other sectors of the economy. ...
<http://www.cdc.gov/od/oc/media/pressrel/r050315.htm>

GOVERNMENT Holds Information Close to Vest
FOX News - USA
... J. William Leonard is the director of the Information Security 
Oversight
Office (search) at the National Archives and Records Administration 
(search).
...
<http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,150557,00.html>

Wall Street Journal
Congress Weighs Identity-Theft Remedies
Lawmakers Question Executives of Companies
With Recent Breaches of Consumer Data
<< http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB111092359986280328,00.html?>>

CITY of Ashland posts public records online
Mail Tribune - Medford,OR,USA
... Tuesday put years of public records -- contracts, minutes, policies,
deeds, you name ... The documents, estimated in the hundreds of 
thousands
-- or 4.2 gigabytes ...
<http://www.mailtribune.com/archive/2005/0316/local/stories/02local.htm>

DEED probe spreads to Belgium
The News-Press - Fort Myers,FL,USA
... forged on deeds filed in Lee County by USA Real Estate Solutions 
Inc.
of Punta Gorda. Notaries are officials who are authorized to certify or
attest documents. ...
<http://www.news-press.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050316/NEWS01/503160456/1076>

MOBILE documentation clinic to offer aid for Sri Lankan tsunami ...
ReliefWeb (press release) - Geneva,Switzerland
... The clinics will respond to thousands of people who lost their 
important
documents such as National Identity Cards, marriage certificates, deeds
and school ...
<http://www.reliefweb.int/rw/RWB.NSF/db900SID/LSGZ-6AJCR2?OpenDocument>

BRAY'S Books Bind Residents To City Branch
Baltimore Sun - USA
... Back at the archives, the pages are open to an even more furious 
debate
... As Edward C. Papenfuse, the state archivist, put it, "Dr. Bray's 
library
survives as a ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/annearundel/bal-ar.bray16mar16,1,6802187.story?coll=bal-local-arundel>

PHOTOGRAPHS depict Native American life in early 1900s
Arizona Republic - Phoenix,AZ,USA
The vaults of Arizona State University's various archives and museums 
already
hold ... ASU archivist Robert Spindler will painstakingly pack the glass
plates at St ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/tempe/articles/0316t-campusbeat16Z10.html>

ARMENIANS Silent Over Examination of Turkish Archives
Zaman Online - Istanbul,Turkey
Armenians have not commented on a proposal to investigate the searching
the allegations of "genocide" through examination of Turkish archives
among other ...
<http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20050316&hn=17546>

ANDELA launches prison archives
Daily Telegraph - Sydney,New South Wales,Australia
ANTI-APARTHEID icon Nelson Mandela today launched a research centre 
documenting
his life on a site where he was jailed three times, marking the recent
15th ...
<http://dailytelegraph.news.com.au/story.jsp?sectionid=1274&storyid=2824236>

MANDELA launches archives from prison years
Reuters.uk - UK
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) - Anti-apartheid icon Nelson Mandela has launched
a research centre documenting his life on a site where he was jailed 
three
times ...
<http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2005-03-16T183312Z_01_HOP666735_RTRUKOC_0_SAFRICA-MANDELA.xml>

GOVERNOR Signs Legislation Creating The California Museum for ...
YubaNet - Nevada City,CA,USA
"This museum will showcase California's extraordinary archives, its rich
and unique history, and it will focus our attention on the stories, the
struggles, and ...
<http://www.yubanet.com/artman/publish/article_19065.shtml>

IBM'S disaster plan
Red Herring - CA,USA
... 10 years, but as much as 40 percent of the time, the tapes wouldn't
... Last month, for example, Bank of America announced that it had 
misplaced
a magnetic tape ...
<http://www.redherring.com/Article.aspx?a=11520&hed=IBM%E2%80%99s+disaster+plan&sector=Industries&subsector=SecurityAndDefense>

Ed - The following story contains a link to the testimony of BoA’s CTO 
concerning the lost data tapes before Congress - pak

THE mystery of the missing tapes
Finextra (press release) - UK
... Bank of America began informing General Services Administration 
(GSA)
SmartPay charge cardholders of the disappearance of computer tapes 
during
transfer to a ...
<http://www.finextra.com/fullfeature.asp?id=586>

BANKER Dons a Black Hat
Motley Fool - USA
... off of the list above -- the rogue of the hour, Bank of America 
(NYSE:
BAC). ... the bank is still saying it simply "lost" the backup tapes 
containing
information ...
<http://www.fool.com/News/mft/2005/mft05031614.htm>

WHEN Warhol's debris is another person's art
Age (subscription) - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... After Warhol's death it took Sotheby's 10 days to sell the good bits
of the artist's estate, Pittsburgh's Warhol museum chief archivist Matt
Wrbican said. ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/Arts/When-Warhols-debris-is-another-persons-art/2005/03/15/1110649197569.html>

CONSUMERS Beware: Old Hard Drives Still Hold Personal Information
KLTV - Tyler,TX,USA
... Financial records, tax information, billing and account information,
even your social security number, still lie on your hard drive. "When
you delete something ...
<http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=3081823&nav=1TjDXWu7>

HISTORIC building burns
Arkansas Times - Little Rock,AR,USA
... northeast corner. A spokesman said that there was no archival 
material
inside. Construction work was underway. Insurance? The state ...
<http://www.arktimes.com/Articles/ArticleViewer.aspx?ArticleID=d03c8514-8acd-41d2-86e4-1b53e0c6bb7e>

GPO safeguards information from hackers, theft
The Hill - Washington,DC,USA
... remarks made by Judith C. Russell, the GPO superintendent of 
documents,
which hinted at a limitation on the number of tangible public documents
available at ...
<http://www.thehill.com/thehill/export/TheHill/News/Frontpage/031605/gpo.html>

WORK without pay can be rewarding
Fremont News Messenger - Fremont,OH,USA
... She cleans glass negatives, restores and stores important historical
items and inputs pertinent information into the institution's computer
system. ...
<http://www.thenews-messenger.com/news/stories/20050316/localnews/2077766.html>

STALIN'S secret files on Hitler
Scotsman - UK
... were buried along with hundreds of tons of other secret documents on
the ... In the 1950s the papers, classified under the former Soviet 
premier
Nikita Kruschev as ...
<http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=283512005>

MY Life, According To The Data Merchants
Information Week - USA
... you, you're not alone. It's a question on many minds now that two 
such
companies, ChoicePoint Inc. and LexisNexis, have disclosed ...
<http://informationweek.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=159900699>

CENSUS to lift veil of anonymity
NEWS.com.au - Australia
... now a person's confidentiality has been protected by the destruction
of all census forms after the information has been entered into ABS 
records,
which do not ...
<http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,12572170-29277,00.html>


WNEP 16, Wed, 16 Mar 2005 1:06 PM PST
Former borough manager charged with records tampering 
http://www.wnep.com/Global/story.asp?S=3086827
INDIANA, Pa. The former borough manager in Indiana was accused of more 
than
doubling an assistant's salary without council's approval and then 
trying to
cover it up.



Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Richmond, Va
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