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RAIN 04/06: Privacy Issues, George and Larry find homes, Look wha t I found on the street



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there is increasing concern over the availability of confidential data on
the internet and whether or not certain data should be made available at
all. Check em out

Nando Media 4/5/00
Privacy advocates leery of putting public records on internet
http://www.nando.com/noframes/story/0,2107,500189322-500254625-501298529-0,0
0.html

by Anick Jesdanun
Associated Press
TORONTO (April 5, 2000 5:05 p.m. EDT http://www.nandotimes.com) - Even if
they've been available on paper for decades, public records in the United
States can sometimes be too public when they're on the Internet, according
to some participants at a conference on computer privacy
(www.cfp2000.org)this week.


Daily Southtown 4/5/00
Groups want state to open doctor's files
http://www.dailysouthtown.com/southtown/dsnews/053nd3.htm

by Tammy Webber
Associated Press
CHICAGO (AP) - Patients could be put at risk by bad doctors because the
state Department of Professional Regulation keeps some physician
disciplinary records secret, two consumer advocacy groups claimed Tuesday.


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I always enjoy finding and reading stories about archival material that has
found a home. The George Wallace papers and memorabilia will be at Roll Tide
U. while the British Library (home to that famous habitue K. Marx) will now
house the Laurence Olivier archive. And the final story in this section
comes from the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Arkansas archivists should read
all the way to the final paragraph for the surprise ending)

Birmingham News 4/5/00
UA may become home of Wallace library collection
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/Apr2000/5-e415670b.html

by Michael Sznajderman
MONTGOMERY - The University of Alabama could become home for an extensive
collection of papers and memorabilia connected to former Gov. George
Wallace.
Representatives of the Wallace Foundation met last month with University of
Alabama President Andrew Sorensen to discuss donating much of the collection
to the university library.

Reuters 4/5/00
British Library buys Laurence Olivier Archive
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000405/re/britain_olivier_1.html

LONDON (Reuters) - The British Library said on Wednesday it had paid $1.59
million for the personal archive of celebrated British actor and director
Laurence Olivier <http://search.yahoo.com/bin/search?p=Laurence%20Olivier>.

Arkansas Democrat Gazette 4/5/00
Tying up the loose ends
http://www.ardemgaz.com/week/Wed/edi/wopOakley5.html
by Meredith Oakley
Besides the column that appeared Tuesday, Bob Starr had several others in
the can (and some column "blurbs," too) when he died Saturday. Check his
regular spot here on Thursday and Sunday.
Unfortunately, he left a good many more columns to be written later. There's
an old saw, once popular among vaudevillians, that a good entertainer always
leaves the crowd clamoring for more. If Starr had been a vaudevillian, he
would have been among the greats.


Boston Globe 4/5/00
Helsinki Commission chairman welcomes transfer of unique Holocaust archives
to Washington
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/096/wash/_Helsinki_Commission_Chairman_:.sht
ml

P.R. Newswire
WASHINGTON, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- "Six years ago, in 1994, the Helsinki
Commission was first made aware of the existence of a unique archive in the
Czech Republic, original documents from the World War II Romani
concentration camp in Lety," said Commission Chairman Rep. Christopher H.
Smith (R-NJ) following the delivery last week of the final tranche of
archive copies to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum. "The long process of
transferring these documents has ended; a new chapter of understanding the
Romani Holocaust-known in Romani as Porrajmos, 'the Devouring'-has begun."

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It's always fun too when super secret documents are found some place they
aren't supposed to be.

Times of India
UK nuclear documents found on sidewalk
http://www.timesofindia.com/today/06worl25.htm

LONDON: Documents outlining unannounced British plans to develop new nuclear
weapons have been found on a sidewalk, The Guardian newspaper reported
Wednesday.
The newspaper said the documents, dated March 10, were found near the
Aldermaston nuclear-weapons factory in Berkshire, southern England and gave
details of production targets to replace the warheads on Britain's U.S.
Trident nuclear submarines.


The Guardian 4/5/00
Nuclear Papers found on the street
http://www.newsunlimited.co.uk/Print/0,3858,3982231,00.html

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Ah government secrecy what would we do without it. Well journalists might be
out of work. It truly amazes me how much government's collect and keep on
individuals.

Los Angeles Times 4/1/00
List raises questions ofa free press
http://www.latimes.com/news/nation/20000401/t000030537.html

by Mary Beth Sheridan

MEXICO CITY--It reads like a who's who of media figures in Mexico. Newspaper
reporters. TV interviewers. Powerful columnists. Foreign correspondents.
But the list that has roiled political and journalistic circles here isn't
for a glittering party or a magazine article. The dossier, with information
about each reporter or commentator, was compiled by the military, according
to an online news service that recently published the documents. The secret
files are raising questions about how much the military accepts democratic
reform and a free press.

Fox News 4/4/00
Gore, Lewinsky E-mails under White House guard
http://www.foxnews.com/elections/040500/whemails_broder_schram.sml

by Martin Schram and Jonathan Broder
WASHINGTON - A senior White House internal security official says he has
assumed control of hundreds of e-mails to and from Vice President Al Gore's
office - documents that could prove significant in federal and congressional
probes of 1996 campaign finance improprieties.

Reuters 4/5/00
Germany gets Cold War spy files back from U.S.
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/nm/20000405/ts/germany_espionage_2.html

by Mark John
BERLIN (Reuters) - The United States has returned to Germany the first of a
stash of Cold War records that could blow the cover of hundreds of Western
agents who worked for former Communist East Germany.

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I wonder what it would have gotten on e-bay.

Philadelphia Inquirer 3/31/00
For Sale: a key element of the first computer
Auctioning off digital history
http://www.phillynews.com/inquirer/2000/Mar/31/business/AUCTION31.htm

by Leonard W. Boasberg
A nearly four-foot-long gizmo bristling with vacuum tubes, wires and
connectors that was the key element in the first digital electronic computer
is up for auction tomorrow.
It is one of the "decade ring counters" that were placed in the innards of
the 30-ton monster called ENIAC, short for Electronic Numerical Integrator
And Computer, that a team led by two men at the University of Pennsylvania
built during World War II for the U.S. Army.


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Copyright issues (again)
Cincinnati Post 4/5/00
New Age for Music Pirates
http://www.cincypost.com/news/music040500.html

Staff report
Gary Johnston of Northern Kentucky University would seem to be just the guy
to explain what's going to happen next in the rapidly changing world of
recorded music.
Lots of people are now making free records off the Internet, raising all
kinds of legal, ethical and business questions about copyrights, royalties,
personal freedom, theft and the future of the music industry as we know it.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Woodside Summit Group, Inc
Richmond, Virginia
Tel: 804-744-1247 extension 23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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