Feds may archive your E-mail.Watch what you say in your electronic mail - it could become part of our national heritage. The Federal Records Act requires that U.S. agencies keep copies of all important business correspondence. Though E-mail - increasingly the vehicle of research and policy communications -- has so far not been included in this rule, that could change, based on a March 18 proposal by the National Archives National Archives, official depository for records of the U.S. federal government, established in 1934 by an act of Congress. Although displeasure concerning the method of keeping national records was voiced in Congress as early as 1810, the United States continued and Records Administration. Responding in part to a lawsuit lawsuit: see procedure; tort. filed by several publicinterest groups, the proposal would force federal agencies to store all incoming Incoming is a 3-D shooter developed by Rage Software and published by Interplay. The PC version was released in late 1998, and the Dreamcast version, a launch title for the console, was released in 1998 in Japan and in 1999 in the rest of the world. and outgoing business-related E-mail. It would not require that missives remain in electronic form or ease access to any covered by secrecy secrecy see confidentiality. or privacy protections. |
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