Information Management Journal articles from July 2007

Information Management Journal archives from July 2007

Getting down to business.(IN FOCUS: A Message from the Editors)(Editorial)
July 1, 2007... In June, a U.K.-based IT services company, Atos Origin, released a survey showing that chief information officers (CIOs) in the United Kingdom feel out of the loop when it comes to their organizations' business strategies. According to the...

Sweden mulls spying law.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... The Swedish government is considering a law that would allow its intelligence agency to monitor e-mail traffic and phone calls crossing the nation's borders without a court order. The Associated Press (AP) reported that the proposal, which...

Too much data leads to lawsuits.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... Retailers in New Jersey and other states are being sued for violating a 2003 federal law meant to combat identity theft. According to the New Jersey Law Journal, the suits in New Jersey charge the companies--including Toys R Us outlets,...

Nazi archive will go digital.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... Vast records documenting Nazi war crimes and victims--filling 16 miles of shelves--collected by the Allies liberating death camps after World War II will soon be scanned, digitized, and made available to the world for the first time. ...

NIST issues RFID guidelines.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(National Institute of Standards and Technology )
July 1, 2007... Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology, also called "smart tags," potentially can improve corporate logistics, change cost structures, and improve current levels of product safety and authenticity for many industries; however, it also...

Americans prefer electronic health records.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... A national survey reveals that the majority of Americans would prefer physicians and insurance companies that use electronic medical records over those that do not. Healthcare giant Kaiser Permanente commissioned the telephone survey of...

FCC imposes pretexting rules.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... On the heels of the U.S. Congress enacting legislation to make pretexting --impersonating an individual to gain access to their personal information without their consent--illegal, the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has enacted its own...

Church, partners open online archive.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints )
July 1, 2007... The Church of Jesus Christ of Latterday Saints (LDS) is partnering with various archives, libraries, and genealogy websites to open an online database containing billions of family-history records and images. The LDS Church recently...

Colorado reduces records fees.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Colorado's copy fees for open records are no longer the highest in the country. Colorado Gov. Bill Ritter recently signed a bill reducing the amount public entities can charge for copies of public records from $1.25...

NARA intern sold documents on eBay.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... In April, a National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) intern pleaded guilty to one federal count of stealing government property. Federal prosecutors said he stole 164 valuable historical documents and put about 150 of them up for...

Canada to credential privacy specialists.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Canadian Access and Privacy Association and Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators )(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The Canadian Access and Privacy Association (CAPA) and the Canadian Association of Professional Access and Privacy Administrators (CAPAPA) are working to create a new occupational certification for professionals who work on maintaining the...

Strategic ECM boosts profits.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(enterprise content management )
July 1, 2007... For most organizations, information chaos--what happens when large amounts of unstructured content hamper their ability to effectively manage and control data--is the rule rather than the exception these days. According to AIIM's recent...

BBC to create digital human archive.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... The British Broadcasting Corp. (BBC) announced plans to create a massive archive that will represent the most complete picture of humankind ever assembled. The BBC said it will collect the largest-ever archive of films, photographs, and...

Breach may violate U.S. Privacy Act.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... For years, the U.S. Agriculture Department has publicly listed the Social Security numbers of tens of thousands of people who received financial aid from two of its agencies. Even more troubling, the department was not aware that it was...

Google's data policy criticized.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... Three public-interest groups have filed a joint complaint with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission (FTC), asking it to investigate the potential threat to consumer privacy posed by Google's planned acquisition of DoubleClick, the country's...

Firms control employee internet use.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... Companies are getting serious about managing employee Internet use. According to a recent survey developed by Robert Half Technology, more than three-quarters of chief information officers (CIOs) polled recently said their firms have either...

International regulations headaches.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... More than 40 countries currently have regulations requiring varying degrees of records retention, according to Computerworld, and global organizations must carefully comply with all of them. But that poses an especially difficult challenge...

Losses highlight need for physical data security.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... It is not enough anymore for organizations to focus on technological data security--physical data security can no longer be overlooked. In the past few years, large and small companies have suffered embarrassing and costly incidences of...

Texas AG sues CVS, RadioShack.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)
July 1, 2007... Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has filed lawsuits against two large U.S. corporations--CVS/ Caremark Corp. and RadioShack--for carelessly disposing of sensitive customer data. According to Abbott's court action, CVS dumped hundreds of...

Survey: companies must control e-mail use, storage.(UP FRONT: News, Trends & Analysis)(Brief article)
July 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] According to an April survey conducted by Osterman Research Inc. and sponsored by MessageOne, corporate e-mail storage and retrieval are not well-managed, and--with legal requests for e-mail growing...

Living dangerously: several months after the amended Federal Rules of Civil Procedure took effect, many companies remain woefully unprepared for electronic document discovery requests.(ON THE EDGE: The Use & Misuse of Information)
July 1, 2007... Any organization--large or small, public or private, for-profit or not-for-profit--can be smacked with an electronic discovery order at any time. According to research from the Enterprise Strategy Group, 47 percent of U.S. businesses with...

Blogs, mashups, & wikis: oh, my! Ready or not, Web 2.0, a new generation of web-based services, is changing the way people work and the way records and documents are created, used, and shared.(Company overview)
July 1, 2007... The tremendous surge in web-based services and applications, known as "Web 2.0," and their corresponding influence on how people create, exchange, and use information are producing an array of new challenges for records and information...

Does your RIM program need a strategic alignment? With compliance and litigation concerns raising the profile for records management, records professionals have a prime opportunity to help evaluate and align business processes to meet organizational goals.
July 1, 2007... Over the past two decades, there has been an increasing focus on the concept of strategic alignment. It has arisen from two viewpoints: focus on the customer and the need to unify disparate technology. The focus on the customer has been, beyond...

Eight tips for working with a consultant: top consultants offer suggestions for identifying, hiring, and working with consultants to produce a successful experience and end result for all involved.
July 1, 2007... [ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] New regulations, changes in legal discovery, and the productivity drain of uncontrolled records all compel businesses and government to seek outside assistance from records and information management (RIM)...

RIM marketing made simple: never mind the myths--you, too, can promote a records and information management program within your organization.(ManagementWise)
July 1, 2007... Granted, marketing a records and information management (RIM) program within an organization is not the easiest thing in the world. But it isn't rocket science, either. Still, several silly myths persist and discourage practitioners from making...

Evidence management solutions for mitigating e-records risks: bringing together IT, legal, RIM, and compliance officers through integrated information risk management (IIRM) is a smart move that can help a company mitigate regulatory and legal risks.(LegalWatch)
July 1, 2007... Reports about various organizations' struggles to comply with recordkeeping regulations are regularly in the news, reinforcing the need for organizations of all sizes and in all types of industries to be more vigilant than ever about their...

Archiving the Internet.(Archiving Websites: A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals)(Book review)
July 1, 2007... TITLE: Archiving Websites: A Practical Guide for Information Management Professionals AUTHOR: Adrian Brown PUBLISHER: Facet Publishing PUBLICATION DATE: 2006 LENGTH: 238 pages PRICE: $99.95 SOURCE: www.amazon.com ...