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RAIN 120/8:"..records should be available free via the Internet." ?



SecurityFocus 12/07/00
Hospital Records Hacked
Hacker easily penetrates hospital net, pilfers thousands of patient records.
http://www.securityfocus.com/frames/?content=/templates/article.html%3Fid%3D12
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By Kevin Poulsen
A sophisticated hacker took command of large portions of the University of
Washington Medical Center's internal network earlier this year, and
downloaded computerized admissions records for four thousand heart patients,
SecurityFocus.com has learned.
The intrusions began in June, and continued until at least mid-July, before
network administrators at the Seattle teaching hospital detected the hacker
and cut him off. The medical center was purportedly unaware that patient
records were downloaded, and elected not to notify law enforcement agencies
of the intrusions.
"It's a story of great incompetence," said the hacker, a 25-year-old Dutch
man who calls himself "Kane." "All the data taken from these computers was
taken over the Internet. All the machines were exposed without any firewalls
of any kind."


MSNBC 12/06/00
Hospital hacked; private files taken
http://www.msnbc.com/news/499856.asp?0cm=c30&cp1=1

by Bob Sullivan
MSNBC
A computer intruder broke into a Seattle-area hospital and downloaded
thousands of private medical records earlier this year, according to security
news Web site SecurityFocus.com. The break-in of University of Washington
Medical Center computers occurred this summer, according to SecurityFocus.
Among the records viewed: the name, address and Social Security number of
over 4,000 cardiology patients, along with each medical procedure the patient
underwent. Hospital officials are disputing the story.



Rochester Democrat and Chronicle 12/07/00
Burger  King files requested
http://www.rochesternews.com/1207burgers.html

by Michael Zeigler
A judge will decide whether a restaurant must give records of 24 employees to
the lawyer for a Henrietta man who is charged with food tampering.
Monroe County Court Judge John J. Connell reserved decision yesterday on a
request to inspect records of Scott B. Savino's former colleagues at a Burger
King on the Thruway in Henrietta.
Savino, 20, is one of three employees charged with a food-tampering scheme
that sickened at least one customer. They're accused of spitting or urinating
on Whopper sandwiches, spraying them with oven cleaner, or throwing them on
the floor before serving them.




Knoxville News-Sentinel 12/07/00
UT in court to oppose records request
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/19750.shtml

by Laura Ayo
Lawyers for the University of Tennessee will be in federal court today to try
to convince a federal magistrate that they shouldn't have to turn over
thousands of student records and university documents subpoenaed by ESPN.
Lawyers for the sports network will be trying to convince U.S. Magistrate
Thomas Phillips they're entitled to the documents to defend ESPN against a
defamation lawsuit brought by a student athlete and a former UT tutor.



Aftenposten 12/7/00
Health archive documents castrations
http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/d178722.htm

More than 400 mostly young Norwegian men and women were castrated between
1934 and 1969, health records show. Most were mentally ill, homosexual,
epilectics or functionally impaired.



Vancouver Sun 12/7/00
Bill allows confidential health records to be used by government, police
http://www.vancouversun.com/cgi-bin/newsite.pl?adcode=n-mm&modulename=national

%20news&template=national&nkey=vs&filetype=fullstory&file=/cpfs/national/00120

7/n120742.html

by James Stevenson
TORONTO (CP) - Confidential health records of Ontarians could be accessed by
the government, police and researchers if a bill introduced Thursday becomes
law.
The proposed law, called the Personal Health Information Privacy Act, is
designed to set rules on the use of personal health records. But 10 separate
exemptions in the legislation allow private health information to be used for
a wide variety of government needs. As well, records can be viewed by police
under recently introduced organized crime legislation.
The president of the Ontario Medical Association, which represents doctors
across the province, said the provincial government "has just created Big
Brother.



Fort Worth Star-Telegram 12/7/00
Scraps of metal keep a piece of history alive
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/doc/1047/1:BPAGE57/1:BPAGE571207100.html

by Eli Sanders
The Seattle Times
SEATTLE -- Until kids started asking questions about the large, flat pieces
of metal they were finding in an abandoned lot where they played, the story
of the worst plane crash in Seattle history had been steadily slipping from
their community's collective memory.
So close was the story to becoming lore that when neighborhood elders told
the kids the scraps were remnants of a huge military plane that slammed into
the ground just beyond the lot's blackberry thickets 45 years ago, killing 27
people, the kids didn't buy it. Neither did their parents.



Reuters 12/05/00
US SEC seeking better access to foreign audit papers
http://news.excite.com/news/r/001205/14/financial-sec-enforcement

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Securities and Exchange Commission is aggressively
seeking better access to audit papers of foreign companies and affiliates of
U.S. companies abroad, the SEC's top enforcement official said on Tuesday.
"To effectively carry out the commission's mission of investor protection, it
is critical that the commission staff have ready access to audit work papers
regardless of where they are located," Richard Walker, head of the SEC
division of enforcement, said.



Evansville Courier & Press 12/06/00
Editorial: Public Records
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200012/06+edpublic120600_news.htm

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Vanderburgh County Clerk Marsha Abell's statement that she is no longer
interested in putting her office's records on the Internet, if taxpayers must
pay for it, brings up a legitimate dilemma.
The issue is similar to one we encountered last summer in commenting on plans
to put the county recorder's records on the Internet - that taxpayers and
citizens using the Web site would have to pay a subscription fee.
For certain, we do not have a ready solution here - only a concern that some
compromise that would permit citizens easy access to public records via the
Web must be found.



Detroit News 12/05/00
Wayne County Land records go online
http://detnews.com/2000/wayne/0012/05/d03-157564.htm

by Jennifer Chambers
The days of long lines and an even longer wait at Wayne County's Register of
Deeds Office could be ending now that the county has put its land records
online.
The office recently launched a new Web site which allows the public to search
land records from a home computer.
The Internet index allows the public to search and identify a recorded real
estate transaction or document through various search criteria such as name,
street address, legal description or tax identification number.



Sydney Morning Herald 12/07/00
They know where you live, but your letterbox is sacred
http://www.smh.com.au/news/0012/07/text/national8.html

By Toni O'Loughlin in Canberra
If you're incensed by junk mailers, the law is on your side at last - and you
will be able to demand they leave you alone.
But under privacy laws passed yesterday, you will have no right to have your
name removed from their databases.
And people will not have the right to stop private organisations collecting
their personal details under the Privacy Amendment (Private Sector) Bill 2000.



The Age 12/06/00
Union seeks uni council audio tapes
http://www.theage.com.au/news/2000/12/06/FFXVOOH1DGC.html

by Toby Hemming
Melbourne University Council deliberations over the controversial
multi-million-dollar float of an Internet company must be made public, a
union representing university staff told a tribunal yesterday.
The National Tertiary Education Union wants access to audio tape recordings
of council meetings relating to the float of Melbourne IT, an Internet domain
name floated last December by the University of Melbourne.
The union is concerned that the float of the company took place through
broker J.B.Were's preferred-customer list and excluded most university staff
and the public.



PCWORLD.com 12/06/00
The dangerous side of spam
Embedded HTML 'bugs' may offer your personal info to marketers, and could
carry viruses.
http://www.pcworld.com/news/article.asp?aid=36063

by Heather Harreld
InfoWorld.com
Although seasoned network administrators may have grown accustomed to the
nuisance of unsolicited e-mail, or spam, these messages may soon pose severe
security threats, thanks to emerging software geared to give e-marketers more
access to personal data.
Marketing companies have begun to embed invisible HTML "bugs" or "beacons" in
their e-mail. Because these tiny one-pixel images must be retrieved from the
sender's server when the message is opened, they can tell the sender when and
how often a recipient looks at a message.



New York Times 12/07/00
Shakespeare's Mother, Mary, Gets a New Address
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/world/07WILL.html

by Alan Cowell
London, Dec. 6 -- William Shakespeare was no slouch at using mistaken
identity as a playwright's ploy - think of the amorous twists and tumbles of
plays like "Twelfth Night" or "As You Like It." So perhaps it should be no
surprise that the custodians of Shakespeare's legacy have become embroiled in
a comedy of errors of their own.
For decades, guides have directed countless tourists to a red-roofed, beamed
cottage near Shakespeare's birthplace at Stratford-on-Avon to pay homage at
the place where his mother, Mary Arden, was thought to have been born in the
early 16th century.



New York Times 12/7/00
Editorial: Provenance and Curatorial Conscience
http://www.nytimes.com/2000/12/07/opinion/07THU3.html

The details of an old painting's provenance - the history of its ownership -
can often look like a verbal maze, a shorthand catalogue of terse allusions
to auctions, exhibitions, reproductions and the lives of former owners.
Provenance is just the kind of thing that only museum curators and art
historians concern themselves with, because only they are interested in the
minutiae of receipts and sales records that make up the economic background
of the history of art. For the most part, the details of the provenance of
the works in museum collections have remained invisible to the public just as
the administrative records of the museum remain invisible.



New York Times 12/07/00
Complaint filed against DUI tipster
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/politics/AP-Bush-DUI-Complaint.html

Associated Press
PORTLAND, Maine (AP) -- A Chicago law student filed a misconduct complaint
against a Portland probate judge linked to the release of information about
George W. Bush's 1976 drunken driving arrest in Kennebunkport.



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

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