EU Debates Electronic Data Retention
DefenseNews.com (subscription) - USA
... The ministers' debate was based on a 15-month-old joint proposal by
Britain, France, Ireland and Sweden to impose mandatory data retention
rules on ...
<http://www.defensenews.com/story.php?F=1092769&C=europe>
EU moves slowly ahead with data retention law
EUobserver.com - Brussels,Belgium
EUOBSERVER / BRUSSELS -- Member states are slowly moving ahead with
plans
to harmonize data retention to fight crime and terrorism, despite
concerns
both ...
<http://euobserver.com/?sid=22&aid=19836>
DATA Retention Bill Divides EU Countries
Guardian Unlimited - UK
... The data-retention bill took on added urgency after the July 7
suicide
bombings in London that killed 56 people, including the four attackers,
but little ...
<http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-5265123,00.html>
EU politicians press for data retention
DeHavilland - UK
... Acknowledging data retention was a "tricky political question", Mr
Clarke said the estimated 1.2 million euros cost was a price worth
paying,
especially as the ...
<http://www.dehavilland.co.uk/webhost.asp?wci=default&wcp=NationalNewsSto
ryPage&ItemID=15039920&ServiceID=8&filterid=10&searchid=8>
BBC opens archives to the public
VNUNet.com - Haarlem,Netherlands
The BBC has tentatively opened its TV archive over the internet. Around
100 short clips from shows such as Walking With Beasts and ...
<http://www.vnunet.com/vnunet/news/2142092/bbc-opens-archives-public>
EX-CLINTON adviser fined $50K for taking documents
Chicago Sun-Times - United States
... adviser who was once entrusted with the nation's most sensitive
secrets,
was fined $50,000 Thursday for taking classified documents from the
National
Archives. ...
<http://www.suntimes.com/output/elect/cst-nws-berg09.html>
LIVES and History Adrift on a Soggy Paper Trail
ktla 5 - Los Angeles,CA,USA
... Courthouse on Poydras Street, three blocks from the Superdome, water
has lapped over 20% of the 60,000 leather-bound books of the New Orleans
Notarial Archives ...
<http://ktla.trb.com/news/la-na-paper9sep09,0,1472452.story?coll=ktla-new
s-1>
MIDLAND College still collecting signatures to support library ...
MyWestTexas.com - Midland,TX,USA
The goal was 10,000 signatures to be hand-delivered to the Coalition for
the George W. Bush Presidential Library in Lubbock on Saturday. By Ruth
Campbell. ...
<http://www.mywesttexas.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=15183033&BRD=2288&PAG=46
1&dept_id=475626&rfi=6>
'HAL 9000' deleted 1 million UK tax records
IT World - USA
... Customs, acknowledged last year that it had been deleting files
accidentally
from ... PAYE database has had a housekeeping function that deletes
records
when they ...
<http://www.itworld.com/Tech/2987/050909hal9000/>
MORMON church plans to put microfilmed records online for ...
AZ Central.com - AZ,USA
... The records have been microfilmed and stored in the vaults, with
copies
elsewhere. The church already has hundreds of millions of names in
computer
files and ...
<http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0909AZ-Mormon-Microfilm-ON.html>
WOMAN gets fine for theft of files
The Express Times - Easton,PA,USA
BELVIDERE -- A Phillipsburg woman charged with stealing her own medical
records from a doctor's office was admitted into a probationary program
Thursday in ...
<http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-0/1126257094
259590.xml&coll=2>
LOST legal records mean chaos for courts
Salt Lake Tribune - United States
... ''The courts have closed down.''. The FBI office in New Orleans had
wind and water damage that soaked case files and other key records. ...
<http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_3013688>
PUBLIC bodies must clean up (Freedom of Information) act
Scotsman - United Kingdom
SCOTLAND'S Freedom of Information Act has been in effect for eight
months,
however some public authorities are still struggling with compliance.
...
<http://news.scotsman.com/politics.cfm?id=1910652005>
DATA Protection Act - Protecting What?
Computer Business Review - UK
... care professionals, not from the DPA, which has given the right of
access since 1984, but by the full introduction of the Freedom of
Information
Act in January ...
<http://www.cbronline.com/bgblog.asp?show=butler_group/2005/09/data_prote
ction.html>
GALVESTON Hurricane
KXAN-TV - Austin,TX,USA
... Rosenberg Library of Galveston Archivist Casey Greene says:
"Galveston,
at the time of the hurricane, was a very, very wealthy city. ...
<http://www.kxan.com/Global/story.asp?S=3826517>
KUTV.com, Fri, 09 Sep 2005 1:06 PM PDT
Top News http://kutv.com/topstories/local_story_252155240.html
SALT LAKE CITY The Mormon church has more than 2 million rolls of
microfilmed
birth, death and census records stored in granite vaults in the Wasatch
Mountains, 25 miles southeast of Salt Lake City.
BusinessWeek, Tue, 06 Sep 2005 10:21 PM PDT
Safe Storage -- for How Long?
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/sep2005/tc2005096_2107.htm
Don't worry about those family pictures you burned on a CD. A bigger
risk is the
potential technological obsolescence of the format
News Daily, Tue, 06 Sep 2005 6:57 PM PDT
Museum captures Delta's heritage
http://www.news-daily.com/articles/2005/09/07/news/cnews3.txt
A few years back Judy Bean approached a man who was walking around the
Delta Air
Lines Heritage Museum and asked him how he liked it. It turns out the
man was
Dave Garrett, then president and CEO of the company.
Birmingham Post Herald, Tue, 06 Sep 2005 3:33 PM PDT
Throwing the book at the book saver
http://www.postherald.com/me090605.shtml
On May 23, David Crider saw a Birmingham Public Library employee
stacking
genealogy books in one of the main library's garbage bins.
Nevada Daily Mail, Fri, 09 Sep 2005 8:18 AM PDT
Volunteers seek help in preservation effort
http://www.nevadadailymail.com/story/1117449.html
Since November 2004, a small but determined band of volunteers have met
almost every Friday in a crowded room of the Vernon County courthouse.
Their
mission is to rescue soot-covered, fragile, almost-forgotten civil
court records
and prepare them to be microfilmed.
PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance, Tue, 06 Sep 2005 12:09 PM PDT
Identity Theft Resource Center Reports 104 Security Breaches Since
January 1st
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050906/cltu034.html?.v=19
Since January 1, 2005, through public announcements and media reports,
at least 104 data incidents have been documented in the U.S.,
potentially
affecting more than 56.2 million individuals.
Science Daily, Wed, 07 Sep 2005 6:34 AM PDT
Electronic Lab Notebooks Useful For Teaching, But Not Ready To Replace
Paper
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050907090323.htm
Electronic laboratory notebooks can be a valuable part of a college
science
education but are not yet a substitute for traditional paper laboratory
notebooks, according to a Duke University chemistry instructor.
Baltimore Sun, Thu, 08 Sep 2005 0:48 AM PDT
Flood might destroy your PC, but not off-site backup files
http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/baltimoresun/business/rss2.0.xml?m=370
Mike Himowitz FOR MANY victims of Hurricane Katrina, there may be one
more disaster waiting at home besides the obvious - I'm talking about
the
wreckage of personal computers and their data.
THE More, the Merrier
Inc.com - New York,NY,USA
... Shortly thereafter, we learned that Iron Mountain's
document-destruction
division was going after another big customer of ours, offering to do
the work for ...
<http://www.inc.com/magazine/20050901/nbrodsky.html>
Peter A. Kurilecz
Richmond, Va
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