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Nashua Telegraph 11/03/00
Assessment data will stay off Web site
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/main.asp?FromHome=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=20177&Se

ctionID=25&SubSectionID=354

by Karen Spiller
MERRIMACK - The town's Web site will be back online today, but without a link
to the property assessment and voter registration data that has generated
controversy in town about what kind of information should be kept within the
walls of Town Hall.
In front of a packed courtroom, the selectmen voted 3-2 to put the Web site
back online but remove the searchable database of assessment information,
including homeowners' names, color photographs of their houses and diagrams
showing exterior dimensions. Those items apparently prompted more than 650
residents to sign resident Rosemarie Rung's petition asking the town to
consider their privacy and immediately remove the personal data from the Web
site (www.ci.merrimack.nh.us).
Selectmen Tony Holevas , Fran L'Heureux and Chris Christensen voted in favor
of putting the Web site back online without the assessment information.
Selectmen Finlay Rothhaus and Norman Carr voted against that motion, which
only addressed removing the assement data and not other personal information.


Nashua Telegraph 11/02/00
Is there privacy online?
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/Main.asp?SiteSearch=1&TypeID=1&ArticleID=20124&;

SectionID=25&SubSectionID=354&S=0&UID=360021181

by Brad Leighton
NASHUA - The Internet is moving us into a brave new world, but it is a world
with cyberspies, saboteurs and surveillance.
Privacy and security were the subject du jour at the annual Software
Association of New Hampshire conference Wednesday night. The conference, at
the Nashua Marriott, was attended by more than 100 software executives and
engineers from across southern New Hampshire.
Susan Landau of Sun Microsystems and author of "Privacy on the Line: The
Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption" was the keynote speaker.
Landau gave a history of wiretapping and encryption, telling how the old
cases of bootleggers and organized crime relates to the modern reality of
industrial espionage. She told a story of a federal government that dragged
its feet to prevent the widespread use of encryption software, despite its
crucial security value to Internet companies.


Huntsville Times 11/04/00
Police find no signs of missing  records
Mental Health Association files report on lost keys, software
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Nov2000/4-e3035.html

by Wendy Reeves
Officials with the Mental Health Association of Madison County have filed a
police report on a long-missing stash of financial records, office keys,
accounting software and passwords.
None of the property discovered missing in March has been found, said Todd
Cannon, executive director of the MHA at 701 Andrew Jackson Way.
Since then, "we have been diligent in making sure that our property and
records are secure," Cannon said.
Huntsville police Sgt. Rex Reynolds said there has been an ongoing
investigation into the suspected internal theft. A fired employee is a
suspect, but no charges have been filed, according to the police report filed
Tuesday.


Star-Tribune 11/04/00
Man buys file cabinet, medical records at auction
http://www2.startribune.com/stOnLine/cgi-bin/article?thisStory=82862649

Statewire
SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) -- Charlie Sislo walked away from an auction at St.
Francis Home South nursing facility with a file cabinet he got for $22.50.
The only problem: The cabinet contained six months of residents' medical
records.
Now Sislo says he won' t turn over the files to the Wisconsin Bureau of
Quality Assurance, the agency that regulates nursing homes in the state,
until he' s sure St. Francis will be held responsible and residents or their
families are compensated for an invasion of privacy.
" This is a unique situation, " said Joe Bronner, a regional field operations
director for the agency.
The cabinet contained about 120 files with names and progress reports of
residents at the home, which closed in 1999. Residents were moved to another
St. Francis home in Superior.
The Bureau of Quality Assurance is investigating how the records ended up in
the file cabinet.


Calgary Sun 11/04/00
Huge volume of health faxes leads to privacy breakdown
http://www.canoe.ca/CalgaryNews/25n1.html

by Cameron Maxwell
Officials with the Calgary Regional Health Authority say there are no
guarantees confidential patient files won't end up in the wrong hands.
A recent fax -- involving the file of a 69-year-old B.C. woman who recently
visited a Calgary neurogenetics clinic -- was mistakenly sent to the Sun on
Wednesday as a result of human error.


San Francisco Chronicle 11/04/00
Affidavit unsealed in S.F. probe
Shredder found hidden in indicted official's office
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2000/11/04/M

N70694.DTL

by Patrick Hoge
FBI agents attempting to prevent destruction of papers subpoenaed in the
probe of San Francisco's minority contracting program found a document
shredder concealed in the office of a city official who was later indicted on
fraud charges in the case.
That was one of several revelations yesterday as a search warrant affidavit
issued last year for the office of Zula Jones, the No. 2 official in the
city's Human Rights Commission, was unsealed. A federal judge ordered the
affidavit made public over Jones' objections.
Jones was not at work yesterday and did not return a message left on her
voice mail. Her attorney, Whitney Leigh, declined to comment on the content
of the search warrant affidavit, although he criticized U.S. District Judge
Maxine Chesney's decision to release it.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Virginia

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