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RAIN 07/11: Webs Past



Sacramento Bee 7/6/00
Placer records security blasted: Policy needed, grand jury says
http://www.sacbee.com/news/news/local03_20000706.html

by Art Campos
The Placer County grand jury is urging the Board of Supervisors to implement
a countywide policy that will prevent original records from being removed
from offices.
The recommendation was made because of a January incident in which the
expense records of Supervisor Harriet White were taken home by then
Auditor-Controller Kimbuck Williams, whose brother was running against White
in an election and wanted to examine his opponent's spending.


Star Tribune 7/7/00
If you've got a secret, state will do more to keep it
http://www.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisSlug=PRIV07&date=07-
Jul-2000&word=license&word=s&word=driver&word=licenses

by Conrad deFiebre
Beginning next month, the state will keep personal information in your
driver's license and motor vehicle records confidential from commercial
marketers and the idly curious unless you consent in writing to its release.

Richmond Times Dispatch 7/6/00
State police probe contract
VDOT alleges improprieties
http://www.timesdispatch.com/virginia/arch/vdot06.shtml

by Peter Bacque
Cued by a Virginia Department of Transportation audit, the state police are
investigating alleged improprieties with a $23.6 million information
services contract with the highway agency.
Last November, VDOT canceled the uncompleted contract with Woodside Summit
Group Inc.


Irish Times 7/6/00
BTSB chief's instruction ignored, tribunal told
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/ireland/2000/0706/mor3.htm

by Eithne Donnellan
An instruction by the chief executive officer of the Blood Transfusion
Service Board in 1989 not to destroy any documents was ignored by Pelican
House, the tribunal was told yesterday.
However, it emerged that while all records relating to the dispatch of blood
products to hospitals by Pelican House prior to 1986 have been shredded by
the BTSB, records of dispatches from the Cork centre of the BTSB are still
on file and will be made available to the tribunal.


Roanoke Times 7/10/00
Records private, schools report
Access to employees files being pondered
http://www.roanoke.com/roatimes/news/story96352.html

by Joel Turner
The Roanoke and Salem school boards allow their superintendents to handle
personnel issues involving school employees and don't ask to see
confidential records, according to the heads of the boards.
"We don't want to micromanage the school system. We hired the superintendent
to administer the schools," said Melinda Payne, chairwoman of the Roanoke
board. "If we have a concern, we sit down with the superintendent and
discuss it."


South Bend Tribune 7/10/00
Van Buren seeks to put land records online
http://www.southbendtribune.com/stories/thisday/local.20000710-sbt-MICH-C1-V
an_Buren_seeks_to.sto

by Adam Jackson
PAW PAW -- For many counties, tax records, plat maps, and property
assessment information are still in the dark ages.
Consigned to dusty storerooms and dank basements, these documents are only
available to the hardiest -- and most persistent -- researchers.
But if Van Buren county officials are successful in their latest crusade for
grant funding, residents in that county may soon have access to nearly every
county land information they need -- in the cozy, con venient confines of
cyberspace.


Technology Review July/August 2000
Viewpoint: In Search of Webs Past
"Survival of the hittest" leaves a precious record crumbling
http://www.techreview.com/articles/july00/viewpoint.htm

by Nick Montfort
Think of the Web as an enormous, slow hard disk. Shared by the entire world,
this disk holds a record of radical media experimentation, the history of a
form that sprang up less than a decade ago to infect popular consciousness
and transform the way we use information. Yet despite a few archival
projects, no one is backing up our collective disk.


Business Wire 7/5/00
IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.1 enaables secure web-based archivind and access to mySAP.com
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000705/ixos-software

MUNICH/GRASBRUNN (BUSINESS WIRE) - IXOS SOFTWARE AG (Nasdaq:XOSY, NEUER
MARKT:XOS), the world's leading supplier of solutions for managing eBusiness
documents in SAP(TM) inter-enterprise environments, announced today the
latest version of its proven business document system, IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.1. The
new version provides full support of both mySAP.com <http://mySAP.com>(TM)
Workplace through the new Web-based DHTML interface and utilizes
state-of-the-art encryption technology. Additionally, IXOS-ARCHIVE 4.1
integrates easily into heterogeneous system environments and supports
terminal servers and Windows 2000 clients. The new software is available for
shipment worldwide in a variety of languages including English, German,
French, Spanish, Japanese, Czech and Slovakian.


Business Wire 7/5/00
Anchorage ASP gives law firms online access to their documents with
LaserFiche Weblink
http://news.excite.com/news/bw/000705/ak-laserfiche-downtown-l

ANCHORAGE, Alaska (BUSINESS WIRE) - Downtown Legal Copies, LLC is bringing
law firms in Alaska up to speed with digital technology by storing their
documents on a secure 24-hour online repository powered by LaserFiche
WebLink.
Subscribing attorneys can access the repository at www.downtownlegal.com
<http://www.downtownlegal.com> using any web browser and an assigned
password. Once logged in, they can view only their own files and also
pinpoint any piece of information by searching with any word or phrase.


Dow Jones 7/9/00
FTC set to challenge Toysmart.com to prevent the sale of consumer data
http://news.excite.com/news/dj/000709/20000709-000007

WASHINGTON -(Dow Jones)- The Federal Trade Commission has voted to go to
court against a troubled e-commerce firm that is seeking to sell data about
its customers despite a guarantee "never" to share such information, The
Wall Street Journal reported Monday.
In a closed session Friday, the agency voted unanimously to seek a
preliminary injunction in federal court today against Toysmart.com
<http://Toysmart.com> Inc., to prevent the Web retailer from selling the
names, addresses and buying habits of thousands of consumers who used the
site before the company stopped taking orders last month, the Journal
reported.


Savannah Morning News 7/7/00
Editorial: Lawton must investigate
http://www.savannahmorningnews.com/smn/stories/070700/OPEDtwo.shtml

GEORGIA LAW states that requests for public records be filled within three
working days. That wasn't the case with the Savannah Police Department
<http://www.savannahpd.org>, which violated that law during this newspaper's
research for the just-concluded "Officers Down" series.
For nearly three months, former Savannah Police Chief David Gellatly
withheld personnel and Internal Affairs files of former Savannah Police
officer Kenneth Griffin from the press and the public.
Mr. Griffin's death, along with that of his former girlfriend, Officer
Christine Mayes, was detailed in the five-part series that ran this week.
Much of the information used was gleaned from the personnel and Internal
Affairs files of the various people involved.


Pioneer Planet 7/8/00
Your data still plenty accessible
Driver's license ruling will limit marketers
http://www.pioneerplanet.com/seven-days/4/business/docs/024221.htm


by Martin J. Moylan
How much privacy will Minnesotans gain from plans to further limit access to
driver's license information? Not much, it seems.
``It's a nonstarter,'' says Michael Fraase, the St. Paul author of
``Information Eclipse: Privacy and Access in America.'' ``There are so many
loopholes. The biggest one is that `researchers' can have access to the
data. But they don't define who a researcher is. People will get it from
third parties at black-market prices.''


World Net Daily
The White House e-mail audit report
A look at the 500 accounts hit by 'server glitch'
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/bluesky_exnews/20000606_xex_the_white_ho.shtml


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management
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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