RAIN 060413
Records and Archives In the News is a compilation of news stories 
related to records and archives management.

More Sensitive Data Turns Up at Afghan Bazaar
Los Angeles Times - CA,USA
... Some of the computer files are dated as ... snapshots, Special 
Forces
training manuals, records of "direct ... computer slide presentations
and documents marked Secret ...
<http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-disks13apr13,0,11661
78.story?coll=la-home-headlines>

NSA and the Dangers of Documents
EContent (press release) - Wilton,CT,USA
... federal agencies on how to redact or edit PDF and Word documents, 
will
be ... to ensure that confidential information contained in Word or PDF
files is not ...
<http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?ArticleID=15304>

Legislators exempt from saving records
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel (subscription) - Milwaukee,WI,USA
... whether to keep or destroy their electronic records. ... he was open
to a public review of those files. ... legislators keep copies of 
electronic
documents, including e ...
<http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=415418>

Dispatches from the front
Boston Globe - United States
... Mary Dean was then the town archivist. The archivist's post, a 
volunteer
position, oversees the archives office, which comes under the town 
clerk's
office. ...
<http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2006/04/13/dispatches_from_the
_front>

Secretly secret
Baltimore Sun - United States
... The National Archives staff needs the muscle of an independent 
outside
... Allen Weinstein, archivist of the United States, suspended the 
reclassification
program ...
<http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/opinion/bal-ed.archives13apr13,0,241636
.story?coll=bal-opinion-headlines>

Guardians of the past
McGill Reporter - Montreal,Quebec,Canada
... Today, the trio is working with McGill Senior Archivist Gordon Burr
and Sarah ... in conjunction with volunteers - especially ones who had
run the archives before. ...
<http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/38/15/archives/>

Patient records safe despite computer theft
Globe and Mail - Canada
... The Saskatchewan government is reassuring long-term care residents
that their privacy is safe after a laptop containing 1,500 patient 
records
was stolen from a ...
<http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20060413.NATS13-2/TPSto
ry/National>

Hydro-Quebec papers found on subway
CBC.ca - Alberta, Canada
Highly classified documents that gave details of new ... The documents
discovered in the subway station give ... The papers also reveal 
temporary
security passwords ...
<http://www.cbc.ca/story/canada/national/2006/04/10/hydro-que-rad-can-doc
s.html>

Classified Hydro-Quebec security papers found in subway
Guelph Mercury (subscription) - Ontario, Canada
Highly classified documents detailing new security measures at Quebec's
power corporation Hydro-Quebec were discovered on a bench in an east-end
subway station ...
<http://www.guelphmercury.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=mercury/La
yout/Article_Type1&c=Article&cid=1144664886886&call_pageid=1050067726078&
col=1050421501457>

Data exposure: Using software to redact personal data from public ...
ComputerWorld - USA
... including Social Security numbers, bank account information, 
driver’s
license data and personally identifying details -- from public documents
is gaining ...
<http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,110486,00
.html>

Water users angry over plan to move files from Roswell
Santa Fe New Mexican - Santa Fe,NM,USA
... "Their livelihood and financial security is based on the 
documentation
in those particular records," he said. DeSimone said while the files are
in Albuquerque ...
<http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/42239.html>

Health records taken in theft
Edmonton Sun - Alberta, Canada
... information that could be used to identify individuals had been 
deleted
from the files before they were taken. The department says the records
were being used ...
<http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/Canada/2006/04/13/1532773-sun.html>


Judge sanctions state police for erasing former chief's computer
The News Journal - Wilmington,DE,USA
A federal judge has ordered sanctions against the Delaware State Police
for destroying evidence in two civil suits that were filed against it
by two troopers. ...
<http://www.delawareonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060413/NEWS/6
0413010>

Town sues for Revolutionary document
Danvers Herald - Beverly,MA,USA
... Lucky for Danvers, Town Archivist Richard Trask saw the notice and
immediately began investigating; he then notified the town manager and
began negotiations ...
<http://www2.townonline.com/danvers/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=47205
6>

Encrypt data as it goes to tape
Techworld.com - London,UK
... JB: In the storage world in particular, it’s this whole idea of a
formal and automated approach to the whole information life cycle 
management.
...
<http://www.techworld.com/storage/features/index.cfm?featureid=2431>

Clerk of Chatham County Superior Court goes digital
Savannah Morning News - Savannah,GA,USA
... to the early 1990s. He said early county records have been scanned
and entered into the database as well. All information is backed ...
<http://www.savannahnow.com/stories/041206/3784392.shtml>

Lawyers strike e-discovery jackpot
The Age - Melbourne,Victoria,Australia
... Lawyers and document retention specialists claim that it also covers
material on office computer hard drives, home computers, personal 
digital
assistants, home ...
<http://www.theage.com.au/news/leon-gettler/lawyers-strike-ediscovery-jac
kpot/2006/04/11/1144521331138.html>

THE National Museum is hoping to fill gaps in its collection as a ...
Unison.ie - Bray,Ireland
He said the National Library and the National Archive had also been 
interested
in yesterday's sale while the museum's aim had been to acquire items 
which
could ...
<http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=1596862&issu
e_id=13913>


Banks Lose Business As Consumers Lose Faith in Online Security
Consumer Affairs - USA
... In addition to its loss of data tapes, Bank of America was one of 
the
many companies that recently lost laptops containing data on its 
customers,
in this case ...
<http://www.consumeraffairs.com/news04/2006/04/online_banking_security02.
html>




Peter A. Kurilecz
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