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RAIN 04/12: Automated hiring, 'doctored' files, destroyed files a nd data cleansing



A lot of the articles in this posting are technology oriented and should get
you thinking.


In the following Fortune piece learn how Home Depot has automated their job
application process. My questions is how are federal recordkeeping
regulations satisfied?
Fortune 4/3/00
To Hire a Lumber Expert, Click Here
by Cora Daniels
http://library.northernlight.com/LH20000328020000378.html?cb=13&sc=0#doc

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The Christian Science Monitor offers an interesting view of how the emails
and records are handled in the White House
Christian Science Monitor 4/7/00
With White House e-mail it's click now, repent later
http://www.csmonitor.com/durable/2000/04/07/fp1s3-csm.shtml

by Francine Kiefer
Washington -- In 1993, in one of the more famous examples of flame e-mails,
Linda Tripp sent out a blistering message, calling senior members of her
White House office "the three stooges."
It's hard to imagine that happening in today's White House, where "no trail,
no trouble" is the unspoken mantra. Such caution prevails that one staffer
used erasable magic markers during a strategy session, rather than risk a
subpeona.


Ottawa Citizen 4/7/00
HRDC files 'doctored', probe told
Union rep testifies he's heard of workers told to fudge facts
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000407/3891584.html

by Rick Mofina
Files in Human Resources Development Canada on federal funding programs were
illegally doctored, according to allegations made yesterday by an opposition
member of a parliamentary committee.
Progressive Conservative MP Jean Dube made the accusation following
testimony before the Commons human resources committee by union officials
representing HRDC employees.
Later yesterday, an official for the department denied his charge.



The Irish Times 4/7/00
Senior civil servants destroy 1999 diaries
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/front/2000/0407/fro2.htm

by Kevin Rafter
A number of senior civil servants have destroyed their diaries for 1999
which contain information on meetings or official engagements attended by
them last year.
Two officials in the Department of Finance and five in the Department of
Justice are no longer in possession of their 1999 diaries. The officials are
all at assistant secretary general rank. The details emerged following a
request under the Freedom of Information Act (FOI).


Ottawa Citizen 4/8/00
Federal record keeping 'a crisis'
New law needed to police perennially lax departments, commissioner says
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/000408/3897174.html

by Kathryn May
Canada's information watchdog says the federal government is facing an
"information management crisis" that requires a new, tougher law to ensure
departments keep and track their records.
Information Commissioner John Reid is calling for an information management
act to put into law Treasury Board guidelines governing the keeping and
managing of information that he argues departments have largely ignored for
years.

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Information Week has two articles which will interest most of you. One
covers the ever popular question of how to handle email. The other one
(much, much longer) brings to the forefront an interest question -- what to
do with all the data that is collected by internet companies and is the data
valid?

Information Week 4/10/00
Authentica gives users control of electronic documents
Mailvault lets users track and control messages; Webvault defines access to
Web pages
http://www.informationweek.com/781/authentica.htm

by George V. Hulme
Executives conduct almost as much business via E-mail and the Web as they
used to do over three-martini lunches, yet some are unwilling to send
sensitive information over the Internet. Authentica Inc. hopes to alleviate
that fear with two Internet security products unveiled last week.


Information Week 4/10/00
Data cleansing helps e-businesses run more efficiently
Data mining and e-commerce have exposed problems with the management of
information
http://www.informationweek.com/781/clean.htm

by Mike Faden
An E-business can't run without accurate data about its customers and
business partners, and that need is elevating data cleansing from an
obscure, specialized technology to a core requirement for data warehousing,
customer-relationship management, and Web-based commerce.

Inline with the above the following from the Washington Post raises another
interesting question -- What will happen to military personnel data?
Washington Post 4/10/00
Name, rank, e-mail address?
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A35194-2000Apr7.html

by William M. Arkin
special to washingtonpost.com

Is the American fighting man's Code of Conduct about to change because of
the World Wide Web?

The code, formally enacted by President Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1955, is an
ethical guide intended to instill courage, dedication and motivation in
soldiers. Its six articles set out the simple edict of wartime behavior, and
give the spiritual strictures relating to capture, resistance as a prisoner
and escape from the enemy.

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Times of London 4/8/00
Paperwork that provides a real chance to read history
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/08/timnnfnnf02005.html

by Richard Ford
"HE THAT wants money, means, and content," observed William Shakespeare in
As You Like It, "is without three good things." The playwright was himself
often without money and, like many less celebrated persons, decided that one
solution was to leave his tax bill unpaid.

Times of London 4/8/00
Hughes papers reveal devotion to Plath
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/08/timfnffnf01002.html

by James Bone in New York
A VAST collection of Ted Hughes's personal papers go on view today. They
suggest that, far from driving Sylvia Plath to suicide, the late Poet
Laureate offered her support in her literary career and handled much of the
couple's childcare.


Times of London 4/11/00
Letters to the Editor: Plath's missing journal
http://www.the-times.co.uk/news/pages/tim/2000/04/11/timopnolt01003.html