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Records Management in the News
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THE SCOOP for July 9, 2009
Archives' record-keeping lapse
Santa Cruz Sentinel - July 5, 2009
"National Archives visitors know they'll find the Declaration of Independence, the U.S. Constitution and the Bill of Rights in the main building's magnificent rotunda in Washington. But they won't find the patent file for the Wright Brothers' Flying Machine or the maps for the first atomic bomb missions anywhere in the Archives inventory."Does Twitter Deserve a Nobel Peace Prize? Maybe Not Yet, But It Could Someday
ReadWriteWeb - July 7, 2009
"Remember when Wikipedia was laughed at, because anyone could edit it? Most people feel differently about that site now, and it's not hard to see a future in which many more people will come to appreciate Twitter as something more important than they do today."Facebook's future: Web 3.0?
Seattle Times - July 6, 2009
"If Google ignited the so-called Web 2.0 business era, Facebook may be ushering in Web 3.0..."FTC Rule on Identity Theft Draws Strong Criticism From Bar Groups
LAW.COM - July 1, 2009
"The New York State Bar Association Monday became the latest bar group to protest new Federal Trade Commission rules requiring lawyers to become involved in preventing identity theft, calling the move unauthorized, unnecessary and destructive to the attorney-client relationship."High court won't touch privacy law
Nashua (NH) Telegraph - June 30, 2009
"New Hampshire survived the strongest legal test to a law making doctors' prescription-writing habits confidential. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday announced it refused to hear the appeal of two data-mining companies that analyze and sell prescription dispensing information."How Greensburg, Kansas Became Greentown, USA
Infonomics Magazine - May/June 2009
"Leveled by a monster Tornado, this heartland community rebuilt green--and paperless--by embracing enterprise content management."North Korea Suspected in Cyberattack
Washington Post - July 8, 2009
"South Korea's intelligence agency suspects that North Korea may have been behind an Internet attack that on Tuesday and Wednesday targeted government Web sites in South Korea and the United States, lawmakers in Seoul told Yonhap news service."Placing Former Employees On Legal Hold
InformationWeek - July 7, 2009
"Legal hold is a term used to set aside certain data to make sure it is not altered while a legal case is being settled. One of those situations is employee termination. The chances are there for the employee to file a wrongful termination lawsuit and for the data center that means placing exiting employees' data on legal hold."Recommendations for reducing government secrecy roll in
FederalComputerWeek - July 6, 2009
"An advisory group plans to hold a public meeting July 8 to collect suggestions on how the Obama administration can improve policy around the classification of government data."Social Security numbers fall out of favor as personal identifiers
NextGov - July 7, 2009
"Government and industry should stop using Social Security numbers as a primary method for verifying identity, according to the author of a recent study that showed how easily thieves can use a combination of personal information and computer software programs to figure out the nine digits."
THE SCOOP for July 1, 2009
Doctors object to penalties for avoiding EHRs
American Medical News - June 29, 2009
"Physician-delegates at the AMA Annual Meeting in June formally came out against planned penalties included in this year's federal stimulus bill that would dock Medicare pay for physicians who do not have a qualifying electronic health record."E-mails can jeopardize your job, the Mark Sanford scandal shows
Los Angeles Times - June 27, 2009
"If ever there was a reminder to be cautious with e-mails, it came this week as romantic missives from South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford to his Argentine lover surfaced in the national press."FTC Testifies on Efforts to Combat Identity Theft
7th Space - June 18, 2009
"The FTC's testimony recommended that, to help prevent identity theft, Congress should establish data security standards across the private sector requiring all organizations that hold sensitive consumer data to take reasonable measures to safeguard it, and to notify consumers when the security of their information has been breached."Homeland Security to kill domestic satellite spying program
NextGov - June 23, 2009
"Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano plans to kill a program begun by the Bush administration that would use U.S. spy satellites for domestic security and law enforcement, a government official said Monday."Monitoring electronic discovery developments through the Web
State Bar of Wisconsin - July 1, 2009
"Electronic discovery is an evolving issue for lawyers and their clients. Many have read about the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure e-discovery rules, data retention, Internet-based evidence ..., and third-party vendors. This article highlights a few Web sites and blogs that monitor these subjects and electronic discovery cases."New Privacy Law Getting Closer
PC World - June 30, 2009
"Comprehensive legislation to protect consumers' privacy is closer to becoming a reality in the U.S. Congress than it's been in several years, officials with the Center for Democracy and Technology said Tuesday."Outsourcing disaster recovery services vs. in-house disaster recovery
Search Storage - June 29, 2009
"The in-house approach may be tempting, with the assumption that the work related to DR can be performed by existing staff. Unfortunately, experience shows that in-house disaster recovery is more likely to fail than outsourced DR services."A Pound of Cure
Technology Review - July/August 2009
"The federal government is about to spend big on health-care IT. Too bad the medical industry has a vested interest in inefficiency."Web site offers glimpse of how IT projects are performing
NextGov - June 30, 2009
"Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra on Tuesday unveiled a public Web site aimed at showing correlations between taxpayer dollars and the performance of federal information technology investments."Web Squared: Web 2.0's Successor?
ZDNet - June 28, 2009
"With the term 'Web 2.0' enjoying its fifth birthday (and supposedly entering dictionaries as the millionth phrase in the English language) the web cognoscenti need new terminology to help define what's coming up next."White House Denies Access to Visitor Records
ARMA NewsWire - June 2009
"The Secret Service has denied separate requests for White House visitor logs, stating that the logs are not agency records covered by the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), but instead are governed by the Presidential Records Act."