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RAIN 12/10 Part 1: Weekend Update



Manchester Union-Leader 12/08/00
Priceless historical Manchester items stolen
http://www2.theunionleader.com/articles/articles_show.html?article=10766

Two priceless historical items were stolen from a display case at the
Manchester Historic Association, police said yesterday.
One was a journal belonging to Samuel Blodget, the 18th and early 19th
century lumber merchant who built a canal to bypass the Amoskeag Falls and
realize his dream of a manufacturing city that is today known as Manchester.
The other is an early edition of Manchester's Daily Mirror newspaper,
possibly dated July 5, 1854.
Gail Nessell Colglazier, the association's director, said the items were
discovered to be missing last week.
She believes that the person who took them is someone interested in the
history of Manchester.



The Star 12/08/00
Fears over Tory plan to share health files
'Big Brother' bill won't protect patients' records, critics charge
http://www.thestar.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?GXHC_gx_session

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Theresa Boyle
Queen's Park Bureau
Government bureaucrats, private researchers and police could have access to
your confidential health records under a new law introduced by the provincial
government.
While the government insists the proposed legislation would safeguard
privacy, critics argue it would do the exact opposite and have condemned it
as Orwellian. Both the province's privacy commissioner and the Ontario
Medical Association expressed serious reservations about potential violations
of privacy under the bill.



The Globe and Mail 12/08/00
Ontario set to limit privacy of health files
Bill would allow police and bureaucrats easier access to personal medical
records
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/gam/National/20001208/UPRIVM.html

by Richard Mackie
TORONTO -- Police officers, government bureaucrats and even researchers would
get broader and easier access to supposedly confidential personal medical
records under changes to Ontario's privacy laws that were introduced
yesterday.
The changes were quickly condemned by Ontario's Privacy Commissioner, by the
president of the Ontario Medical Association and by members of the opposition
at Queen's Park.
The legislation apparently would give access to medical records to more
people than federal legislation or any other province allows.



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12/08/00
UW Medical Center's reords are hacked
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/local/hack08.shtml

by Chris Grygiel
The University of Washington Medical Center acknowledged last night that a
hacker broke into its computer network and gained access to records for
thousands of patients -- a report the school initially denied as "completely
inaccurate."
The incident was first reported this week on SecurityFocus.com, an Internet
news service. It said the hacking by a Dutch man began in June and continued
until mid-July, at which time network administrators at UW cut the
perpetrator off. The report said the hacker downloaded computerized
admissions records for 4,000 heart patients.



The Flint Journal 12/08/00
Death records get new life
http://fl.mlive.com/news/index.ssf?/news/stories/20001208f8c18maked.frm

by James M. Miller
For years, volunteers from the Flint Genealogical Society have spent Fridays
at the Genesee County Clerk's Office, helping people find information about
relatives.
Now, information is quicker and easier to find by using a computer, and the
data can include details that the county's records do not.
Volunteers spent years typing the earliest death records, from 1867 to 1930,
checking them and adding information not included in the original records.
Bob Bastien of Columbiaville typed the 49,102 death records; his wife, Marty,
added funeral home and cemetery information. Mike Taylor of Mundy Township
edited and put the information into the computer in the clerk's office.



The Everett Herald 12/08/00
Hackers stole UW medical records, Web site reports
http://www.heraldnet.com/Stories/00/12/8/13245291.cfm

Herald staff
SEATTLE -- Information on thousands of patients at University of Washington's
medical center, including their Social Security numbers and medical
procedures, was obtained in a computer break-in from overseas, a Web site on
computer security reported Thursday.
The university confirmed that its computers had been penetrated earlier this
year and said it was trying to determine what records had been compromised.
It said the security breach might have involved databases maintained by
researchers rather than those used in patient care.



National Post 12/08/00
Records faked to fool inspectors: Walkerton probe
Scales to measure the chlorine used to disinfect water never worked
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/national/story.html?f=/stories/20001208/39806

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by Colin Perkel
The Canadian Press
WALKERTON, Ont. - Management at the Walkerton public utilities commission
tried to hoodwink health inspectors with fake records after a deadly E. coli
poisoning outbreak hit the town.
Utilities foreman Frank Koebel admitted logs were rewritten and "fictitious"
records presented to Ministry of Environment inspectors investigating the
outbreak.
Mr. Koebel said yesterday it was obvious that one of the inspectors was
suspicious when presented with the fake records.
"You could tell he was a little concerned," Mr. Koebel said.



Government Technology 12/00
Public Agencies, Private Data
http://www.govtech.net/publications/gt/2000/dec/146.phtml

by Jim McKay
As access to state-held records becomes easier, citizens want to see the
issue addressed. Increasingly, states are faced with making new rules in
unfamiliar territory.
Internet privacy issues abound, and governments worldwide stand at various
levels of addressing the matter. Canada and Australia have federal privacy
commissioners, and in America, several state governments have an eye toward
the federal government, hoping guidelines for dealing with a citizenry that
is becoming increasingly jittery about parting with personal information will
soon emerge.
In its privacy-policy report released in September, the National Electronic
Commerce Coordinating Council (NECCC) warned that the privacy debate has
received too little attention on the state and local levels during the rush
to adopt e-commerce.





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

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