From the Washington Post: President Obama on Monday ordered agencies to make wider use of digital-based record-keeping systems in what aides promise will be the most significant change to government archiving since Harry S. Truman’s presidency. “The current federal records management system is based on an outdated approach involving paper and filing cabinets,” Obama said [...]
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"Obama Wants Better Digital Archive of Federal Records" + Full Text of Presidential Memorandum
Filed by Gary Price on November 28, 2011
Filed Under: Archives, Government Tagged With: Government Records, NARA, White House
EPIC: WhiteHouse.gov Modifies Privacy Policy; Now Tracking Users For Up to Two Years
Filed by Gary Price on June 8, 2011
From an EPIC (Electronic Privacy Information Center) Blog Post: The White House modified its privacy policy for WhiteHouse.gov on June 3, 2011. The new policy is more than twice as long as the old policy. The new policy states the White House web site now uses persistent Google Analytics cookies that track users for up [...]
Filed Under: Government, Privacy and Security Tagged With: Cookies, White House, Whitehouse.gov
Archivist of U.S. Talks to Congress About "Recipe for Lost Docs" & Preserving Social Media From White House Staff
Filed by Gary Price on May 3, 2011
UPDATE 2: Video of Hearing (Runs About 90 Minutes) (via YouTube) UPDATE: Prepared Testimony By Mr. Ferriero and Brook Colangelo From Tech Insider: A current law that gives federal agencies 30 years to turn over all the records that must be permanently retained by the National Archives is a recipe for lost documents and a [...]
Filed Under: Archives, Government, Legal, Preservation, Social Media Tagged With: David Ferriero, Digital Preservation, NARA, White House
