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Sunday, July 6, 2008

SSA lists thousands of live persons as dead
By mistakenly adding more than 20,000 living people to its public Death Master File, the Social Security Administration released their names, Social Security numbers and other personal information, SSA's IG finds.
(Posted June 26, 2008)

FOIA ruling raises questions
A federal court decision answered one legal question about public records and raised several new ones.
(Posted June 20, 2008)

GAO: Trusted shipping program needs work
Auditors say Customs and Border Protection needs to improve the technology behind the Customs-Trade Partnership Against Terrorism program.
(Posted May 27, 2008)

Should NARA be the e-archiving cop?
IG says the agency needs to become more active in enforcing records law compliance.
(Posted May 19, 2008)

President orders agencies to simplify data labeling
Directive puts NARA in charge of efforts to improve the handling of controlled unclassified information.
(Posted May 19, 2008)

Clipping the wings of indulgent travelers
VA and other agencies turn to new e-travel systems to trim excessive costs.
(Posted May 19, 2008)

Will NARA be ready for Bush's e-records?
GAO and NARA's IG are concerned about whether NARA's new system for archiving the Bush administration's e-records will be ready by January.
(Posted May 15, 2008)

Bill targets messy e-records
A measure introduced by House Democrats would set minimum standards for agencies’ records management systems.
(Posted May 5, 2008)

Agencies tackle backlog of citizenship applications
CIS and the FBI process time-consuming name checks.
(Posted April 14, 2008)

Census counts on paper for 2010
House lawmakers grill Commerce officials about rising costs and reversion to paper.
(Posted April 7, 2008)

Treasury tops FOIA worst list
Despite recent policy changes, some critics see little progress on FOIA reforms.
(Posted March 31, 2008)

States, feds still struggle to share health information
Technical and policy gaps remain in the patchwork of systems that send data about disease outbreaks to national repositories.
(Posted March 31, 2008)

White House e-mail forensics case won't be easy to crack
The ongoing drama of missing White House e-mail messages highlights the complexities and costs any agency could face if suddenly asked to account for e-mail or other networked data
(Posted March 31, 2008)

TIGTA: Private debt collectors protect IRS taxpayer data
Two companies that pursue delinquent taxpayer debt do a good job of protecting sensitive information, a new report states.
(Posted March 27, 2008)

Sprehe: The president's legacy
The White House has repeatedly tolerated inadequate systems for keeping e-mail records.
(Posted March 24, 2008)

White House e-mail controversy may affect current computers
A federal magistrate is weighing requiring the Executive Office of President to make copies of hard drives and storage media in use between March 2003 and October 2005.
(Posted March 18, 2008)

Critics say EPA closed libraries too soon
Because the libraries were closed before all their contents were put online, some information may be lost forever, critics said.
(Posted March 17, 2008)

CREW: White House misled court about missing e-mail
The group, which has sued the Bush administration over the alleged loss of millions of e-mail messages, wants a federal court to hold officials in civil contempt for a statement they gave the court in January.
(Posted March 7, 2008)

Records managers see value of enterprise architecture
The IRS, NRC and Interior find success in developing records management systems by tying their business cases to their enterprise architectures.
(Posted March 7, 2008)

OMB finalizes new statistical policy
The directive calls for the timely release of policy-neutral information.
(Posted March 7, 2008)

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