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1. News - Hong Kong

   'Terrifying' 4 million government records dumped in 6 months

   Posted Jan 24th 2013, 12:00am by Joyce Ng

   ... News Hong Kong Government Records Government Records Office Joyce Ng joyce.ng@scmp.com The government has in the past six months dumped records equivalent to 55 times the height of the Two IFC building, an amount a retired government archivist called "terrifying". The records were among 3.9 million appraised by the Government Records Office in the last six months ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1134658/terrifying-4-million-government-records-dumped-6-months
2. News - Hong Kong - POLICY

   Pressure on ICAC to give up records

   Posted Mar 28th 2013, 12:00am by Joyce Ng

   ... records" - primary records related to its core operations - to the Government Records Service for appraisal and storage. Despite a mandatory requirement imposed on it since 2011 to hand over its ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1201292/pressure-icac-give-records
3. News - World

   Be careful what you ‘like’: Facebook users reveal secrets, study shows

   Posted Mar 12th 2013, 12:19pm by Guardian News Service

   ... News World Lifestyle Technology Facebook Guardian News Service Researchers highlight danger of data abuse Facebook users are unwittingly revealing intimate secrets - including their sexual ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1189145/be-careful-what-you-facebook-users-reveal-secrets-study-shows
4. News - Hong Kong - RECORD-KEEPING

   Call for archive law to protect valuable government data

   Posted Jan 05th 2013, 12:00am by Olga Wong

   ... a veteran archivist has warned. Simon Chu Fook-keung, former director of the Government Records Service (GRS), hopes the Ombudsman will give priority to protecting government documents at risk ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/hong-kong/article/1120068/call-archive-law-protect-valuable-government-data
5. Comment - Insight & Opinion - INSIGHT

   Digital world must eventually defeat dictators: Schmidt, Cohen

   Posted May 09th 2013, 02:24pm by Global Viewpoint Network/Tribune Media Services

   ... connected networks, the more is known and learned about us. Every click and search is recorded as “permanent data” on the “cloud.” The same apparatus that enables unprecedented connectivity enables ...

   http://www.scmp.com/comment/insight-opinion/article/1233654/digital-world-must-eventually-defeat-dictators-schmidt-cohen
6. News - World

   Top British firms condemned for prolific use of tax havens

   Posted May 13th 2013, 04:28pm by Guardian News Service

   ... Treasury spokesman after criticising the government’s deal on banking regulation as “pitiful”, said the research showed new measures on tax havens were needed. He said: “Tax transparency must start ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1236823/top-british-firms-condemned-prolific-use-tax-havens
7. News - World

   Jay-Z and Beyonce accused of ‘propaganda’ for Castro as they holiday in Cuba

   Posted Apr 08th 2013, 11:30am by Guardian News Service

   ... the Carters caused quite a splash when they came to town last week, so much so that local police had to keep the adoring crowds at bay. As the blogger of the Cuban government, Yohandry Fontana put it, ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1209824/jay-z-and-beyonce-accused-propaganda-castro-they-holiday-cuba
8. News - China

   China imprisons four men for selling dead brides for ‘ghost marriages’

   Posted Mar 05th 2013, 09:43am by Guardian News Service

   ... to more than two years in prison for stealing 10 female corpses, cleaning them up and counterfeiting their medical records to boost their prices, and selling them on the black market for a total ...

   http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1178828/china-imprisons-four-men-selling-dead-brides-ghost-marriages
9. Business - Comment - LAI SEE

   Why is the government destroying so many documents?

   Posted Jan 25th 2013, 12:00am by Howard Winn

   ... per cent between 2008/09 and 2009/10. The Director of the Government Record Service was once a qualified archivist. The position is now filled by an executive grade civil servant. We need ... new --> caractacus Jan 25th 2013 5:56pm Destruction of evidence? new --> chaz_hen Jan 25th 2013 12:36pm regarding the records fiasco: Hong Kong...slowly sliding down into the abyss as a third world milk powder market. But hey, you have super fast internet, right?? ...

   http://www.scmp.com/business/article/1135429/why-government-destroying-so-many-documents
10. News - World

    ‘Google for spies’ software tracks social media habits – and predicts future behaviour

    Posted Feb 11th 2013, 01:30pm by Guardian News Service

    ... with US government and industry as part of a joint research and development effort, in 2010, to help build a national security system capable of analysing “trillions of entities” from cyberspace. ...

    http://www.scmp.com/news/world/article/1147958/google-spies-software-tracks-social-media-habits-and-predicts-future

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