Information Management Journal back issues from March 2009:
An opportune time to prove RIM's value.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editor)(records and information management)
Mar 01, 2009; ... While most of the world is preoccupied with faltering economies and big-time bailouts, records managers know that the need to properly manage and preserve records at this time in particular must remain--or become--a top priority. In these uncertain times, records and records programs serve ...
Obama Executive Order limits privilege for presidential records.(GOVERNMENT RECORDS)(Barack Obama)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] One of President Barack Obamas first orders of business after moving into the Oval Office was revoking one of George W. Bush's most controversial orders involving presidential records. On his first day in office, Obama signed his own executive order ...
Australian web filter plan criticized.(CENSORSHIP)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Australian government is testing a nationwide web-filtering system that has been widely criticized as undemocratic. The plan will require Internet service providers (ISPs) to block access to thousands of sites containing content deemed by the government to be questionable or ...
NARA opens 9/11 commission records.(ARCHIVES)(National Archives and Records Administration)(www.archives.gov)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The National Archives has opened more than 150 cubic feet of records created by the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States--known as the "9/11 Commission"--an independent, bipartisan commission created by Congress. The commission's mandate was to provide a "full ...
Obama gets approval for 'first smartphone'.(INFO SECURITY)(Barack Obama )(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... U.S. security officials have approved a high-tech, spy-proof, $3,350 smartphone for Barack Obama so he can be the first sitting president to use e-mail. Media reports said the Sectera Edge, made by General Dynamics, is capable of encrypting top-secret voice conversations and ...
Cyber crime soaring in bad economy.(CYBER SECURITY)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The use of malware on websites to steal passwords and other sensitive information is skyrocketing, according to a new report from the Anti-Phishing Working Group (APWG). The number of URLs with hidden code for stealing passwords nearly tripled ...
SEC seeks e-records for investment advisers.(FINANCIAL)(Securities and Exchange Commission)(electronic records)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The Securities and Exchange Commission's (SEC) Division of Investment Management is working on rule amendments that will require registered investment advisers to keep all their records in an electronic format. There is no timeline for when the ...
Federal regulations available online.(E-ACCESS)(Office of the Federal Register)(www.federalregister.gov)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Office of the Federal Register has created the Electronic Public Inspection Desk to provide free, worldwide electronic access to public documents. For the first time in the 72-year existence of the daily Federal Register, the documents on file are available for viewing anytime, ...
Beijing Olympic records closed until 2038.(ARCHIVES)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Hundreds of thousands of document files and electronic records documenting the 2008 Beijing Olympics and Paralympics have been transferred to the city's archives as "invaluable cultural heritage" items, but they likely won't be open to the public for 30 ...
Smithsonian moves toward FOIA.(FOIA)(Freedom of Information Act)(Smithsonian Institution)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Smithsonian Institution, which has long operated outside the reach of The Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), has implemented an FOIA-like policy. The policy includes many elements of the open records law, while allowing the quasi-governmental agency to withhold more of its ...
Federal Court sides with Cheney over retention of VP records.(GOVERNMENT RECORDS)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... In January, a federal judge ruled that former Vice President Dick Cheney has broad discretion in determining which records created during his eight-year tenure must be retained. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled that, absent any evidence that Cheney's office failed to ...
Ohio Supreme Court ruling: e-mails are public records.(E-MAIL)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... In a landmark ruling, the Ohio Supreme Court decided that electronic messages that address government business--including deleted e-mails--are records protected by the state's open records laws, whether they are stored in a public or private computer. In a unanimous ruling ...
U.S. Education Dept. updates student privacy rules.(PRIVACY)(Department of Education)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The U.S. Department of Education has implemented new regulations meant to clarify when universities can release confidential information about students. The move is meant to reassure school officials that the government will not second-guess their ...
Germany approves controversial law.(PRIVACY)(Federal Criminal Police Office)(BKA-law)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The German government has passed the "BKA-law," which gives the Federal Criminal Police (BKA) controversial extra powers to fight terrorism. Among the contested powers is the provision that allows the German police to legally engage in audio and video surveillance of private ...
Data breaches skyrocket in 2008.(DATA SECURITY)(Statistical data)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The Identity Theft Resource Center (ITRC) monitors five groups for data breaches annually (see chart). It found that the financial, banking, and credit industries have remained the most proactive groups in data protection over the past three years. Businesses accounted for about 37% of the ...
UK data centers close to bursting point.(DATA STORAGE)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Data centers in the United Kingdom are close to a breaking point, with the majority now running perilously close to storage capacity, according to a recent report. Increased data retention legislation and higher computing requirements have pushed the majority of European data ...
EU launches online library.(LIBRARY)(European Union)(www.europeana.eu)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The European Union has launched a massive online digital library that promises to bring Europe's cultural heritage to the world. The Europeana online digital library--www.europeana.eu--allows Internet users to browse the British library without ...
UK's archivist groups to merge.(ARCHIVES)(The Society of Archivists)(National Council on Archives)(Association of Chief Archivists in Local Government)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... The United Kingdom's three leading archivist organizations--The Society of Archivists (SoA), National Council on Archives (NCA), and Association of Chief Archivists in Local Government (ACALG)--have agreed to merge. A legal merger is planned by August 2009, but full integration ...
Bush gone, but e-mail problems linger.(GOVERNMENT RECORDS)
Mar 01, 2009 ... Less than a week before the Obama administration moved into the White House, the Bush administration was ordered to turn over any electronic devices that may contain e-mails from between March 2003 and October 2005, a period from which millions of the executive office's e-mails are ...
Outgoing NC Gov. decides e-mail should be saved.(E-MAIL)
Mar 01, 2009 ... On his last day in office January 9, North Carolina Gov. Mike Easley signed an executive order declaring that e-mail messages are public records and should be saved. The move shocked news organizations that sued him over the issue last year. The Raleigh News & Observer, The ...
Can NARA handle onslaught of Bush e-records?(ARCHIVES)(National Archives and Records Administration)(electronic records)(Report)
Mar 01, 2009 ... National Archives officials estimate that the electronic records of the George W. Bush years are about 50 times as large as those left by the Clinton White House in 2001, and they include everything from top-secret e-mail plans for the Iraq war to scenes from the "Barney Cam 2008," a White ...
U.S. archivist Weinstein resigns.(ARCHIVES)(Allen Weinstein)(Brief article)
Mar 01, 2009 ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Allen Weinstein, Archivist of the United States, submitted his resignation to President Bush, effective December 19, 2008. Weinstein, who has Parkinson's disease, cited health reasons for his decision. Deputy Archivist of the United States, ...
Nationwide e-health records by 2014?(E-HEALTH)(electronic health records)
Mar 01, 2009 ... President Barack Obama has plans to standardize and computerize all health records within five years as part of his effort to boost the U.S. economy. But experts say the hurdles are great. For example, only 8% of the nation's 5,000 hospitals and 17% of its 800,000 physicians ...
Facing the economic storm: navigating RIM programs through hard times: business unit managers can help steer their programs through the current economic storm by providing leadership, capitalizing on new opportunities, and planning for the future.(records and information management)
Mar 01, 2009; ... The United States and many other nations are experiencing the most severe recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Financial institutions are collapsing, companies are downsizing, and the retail industry is reeling. The current economic crisis may take years to play ...
Cost containment: through a robust RIM program.(records and information management)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The December 2006 amendments to the U.S. Federal Rules of Civil Procedure (FRCP) codified parties' obligations regarding the identification, preservation, and production of electronic information in response to a discovery request. This activity, ...
Technology tips for cutting e-discovery costs.
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] There is one sound always associated with announcing the estimated costs of electronic discovery. It is a gasp. Sometimes accompanied by a wheeze of pain, sometimes by a grunt of reluctant acceptance, and sometimes by a curse of protest. No matter how it's ...
Cooperative process for minimizing discovery burden, expense.(electronically stored information)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] The challenges associated with discovery in the world of increasingly voluminous and complex electronically stored information (ESI) are well documented. These challenges call for a different approach to how parties interact with respect to meeting their ...
How to successfully implement an e-records management program: recognizing the need for collaboration, the records management and information technology departments of the company highlighted in this case study partnered to implement a successful enterprise-wide electronic records management program.(CASE STUDY)
Mar 01, 2009; ... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Building on its successful implementation of an e-mail management program, the company featured in this case study turned to holistic e-records management. From its inception, the project's fast pace drove its success. In the first 90 days, the ...