Databases store the bits of a company's information, everything from auto part inventory levels to personnel records.

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What if HR has personnel records stored in a way that will knock you out of compliance?

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The documents are a mixture of the every day - traffic tickets, personnel records - and the potentially critical, including filing cabinets marked "Murders" and "Disappeared".

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Lucy James, a former Scientologist who had access to Sea Org personnel records, says that she knows of dozens of cases in which members were pressed to have abortions.

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His team consisted of retired prosecutors and judges and was allowed access to personnel records on Church employees going back more than a decade, the German broadcaster Deutsche Welle reports.

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Eleven staff possibly opened the malicious attachment, allowing the attackers to gain access to, and potentially steal, sensitive data, including a database at the nuclear weapons laboratory housing personnel records going back to 1990.

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The Federal Reserve "welcomes" a full review of its September 2008 rescue of American International Group, it told the Government Accountability Office in a letter Tuesday, and it pledged to make available all records and personnel needed to do the review.

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More than one-third of those doctors polled said they did not have the money to install electronic medical record systems while 20 percent said they did not have the personnel to install electronic medical records.

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They interviewed Jumale twice and 22 other al-Barakaat personnel and returned home with 17, 000 pages of records, plus data from al-Barakaat and bank computers.

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