Press release: “Becta [British Educational Communications and Technology Agency], the education technology agency, has published a key report on Microsoft Vista and Office 2007 and on document interoperability which analyses the suitability of both software packages for adoption by schools and colleges.” Microsoft Vista and Office 2007: full report, Published: 9 January 2008, Publication ID:… Continue Reading
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Category Archives: E-Records
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Mis-Information at the Heart of the University: Why Administrators Should Take Libraries More Seriously, by Stuart Basefsky Carpe Diem: Establish an Institutional Repository for Your Organization, by Carol A. Watson What’s New in Cordless Mice? by Jeffrey J. Beard FOIA Facts: FOIA – The Year in Review, by Scott A. Hodes E-Discovery Update: A Contrarian… Continue Reading
Proofpoint Reports Spam Email Trends for November 2007
Press release: “Proofpoint, Inc., the leading provider of unified email security and data loss prevention solutions, today reported spam trends for data collected during the month of November 2007, finding that, on average, spam continues to represent nearly 90% of the total email volume received by large enterprises. Attachment-based spam made a comeback with the… Continue Reading
Privacy, Public Access and Policymaking in State Redaction Practices
Government Technology: “A new white paper designed to help public officials develop policies for removing Social Security numbers and other sensitive information from public documents is now available online. The National Association of Secretaries of State (NASS), in collaboration with the National Electronic Commerce Coordinating Council (eC3), today released a joint white paper on redaction… Continue Reading
New on LLRX.com for November 2007
Criminal Resources: False Confessions, by Ken Strutin Australian Trade Marks Law: The Madrid System, by Nicholas Weston Gadgets, Gadgets, Gadgets, by Barbara Fullerton, Sabrina I. Pacifici and Aaron Schmidt Locating Lawyers (including Corporate Counsel): A Brief Overview of Attorney Directories and a 50 State Survey of Online State Bar Directories, by Scott Russell Deep Web… Continue Reading
Report – The Search is On: State CIO Starting Points for E-Discovery
National Association of State Chief Information Officers – The Search Is On: State CIO Starting Points for E-Discovery November 2007: “In its September 2007 Issue Brief entitled Seek and Ye Shall Find? State CIOs Must Prepare Now for E-Discovery!, NASCIO raised the importance of State CIO involvement in e-discovery and the need for collaborative state… Continue Reading
UK Government Loses Personal Data on 25 Million Citizens
20 November 2007, Statement to the House of Commons by Chancellor of the Exchequer, Alistair Darling, MP, on HMRC “With your permission Mr Speaker I should like to make a statement on the breach of procedures which led to missing personal data relating to child benefit from Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs…The National Audit Office… Continue Reading
Archive Seeks to Discover Full Extent of Missing E-Mails at White House
Follow up to previous postings on litigation and hearings on missing White House email and violations of the Presidential Records Act: “The National Security Archive filed a motion on Friday, October 26, seeking expedited discovery against the Executive Office of the President to find out what e-mails are missing from the White House e-mail system… Continue Reading
Seek and Ye Shall Find? State CIOs Must Prepare Now for E-Discovery
NASCIO – Seek and Ye Shall Find? State CIOs Must Prepare Now for E-Discovery, September 2007: “In increasingly consolidated state technology environments, State CIOs may have heightened responsibility for the storage, preservation and retrieval of electronic information in response to e-discovery requests. Since government information is a knowledge asset, State CIOs must ensure the proper… Continue Reading
The Challenge of Electronic Discovery: How Reference Service, Records Management and Litigation Support Interact
Materials from PLL Programs at AALL 2007 – The Challenge of Electronic Discovery: How Reference Service, Records Management and Litigation Support Interact, Speakers: John Montaña, Esq., PelliGroup, Inc. and Rachelle L. DeGregory, Esq., LexisNexis [PowerPoint document] Continue Reading
Public Comments On National Disaster Medical System and Privacy Issues
“The World Privacy Forum has filed public comments with the Department of Health and Human Services requesting that its new National Disaster Medical System protect all patient information to at least the baseline protections that HIPAA affords, including the HIPAA security and privacy protections. Currently, the new system does not do this, even though the… Continue Reading
Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise
Electronic Records Management and Digital Preservation: Protecting the Knowledge Assets of the State Government Enterprise, PART II: Economic, Legal, and Organizational Issues, July 2007 “NASCIO continues its series on electronic records management and digital preservation with Part II which focuses on economic, legal, and organizational issues and recommended actions for State CIOs. Part II builds… Continue Reading
