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Look out for what will be coming to the UK soon. If you're one of those people who hasn't bothered to figure out how to crank up those Facebook  privacy settings then maybe this will convince you to do so.

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission has given approval to the Social Intelligence Corp which has archives of files on Facebook users' posts as part of a background-checking service reports

The FTC says Social Intelligence complies with the Fair Credit Reporting Act which is the same set of rules that keeps your credit records for seven years.

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An unnamed third party has been blamed for an error that led to a breach of 83,000 customer records from The Co-operative Group.

The data was related to planning products offered by the Life Planning division of the Co-Operative and an error at a third party support services provider for its life planning and wills and funeral planning division has been blamed for the breach.

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I hear the Arnold Schwarzenegger administration has signed and executive order to release all his paper records to the Califirnia State Archive for collection as soon as possible.

Staff say that the paper content equates to about 6 articulated lorry loads of hard copy documents and about 8 terabytes of electonic data. All of the documents will be indexed and made available to the public. The documents include bill files, news releases, speech files and all letters from constituents.

Whatever happened to the paperless office !

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This is your invitation to join us for the prestigious 14th Information and Records Management Society Conference, taking place from Sunday 3rd to Tuesday 5th April 2011.

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