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RAIN 12/29: Privacy, court records and the Mona Lisa



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Winston-Salem Journal 12/28/00
Couple asks court for records about boy
http://www.journalnow.com/news/local/local/northcarolina/abuse28.htm

Associated Press
RALEIGH
A couple allowed to sue Wake County social workers for negligence over a
foster child's past is asking an appeals court for access to confidential
records about him.
The couple, whose daughter was molested by the foster child in their care,
say they believe that the records will help them prove their claim that
Wake County officials should have told them about the child's history of
sexual abuse and violence.



The Chronicle-Telegram 12/28/00
Attorney sues partner for allegedly taking computer, files
http://www.chronicletelegram.com/local/local2.htm

Kristin Yarbrough
ELYRIA-- An Elyria attorney is suing a former law firm partner for
allegedly taking a computer and client files when he left.
Attorney Brian Balser, of the former law firm Balser, Miraldi and Walther,
filed a $25,000 civil suit against James Walther, his former partner, for
taking client files, documents, reports, a computer and data stored in the
computer when he left the firm on Nov. 22, according to court documents
filed Dec. 22.


The Australian 12/28/00
Battle to protect children's net privacy
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/common/story_page/0,4511,1557133%
255E2702,00.html

by Benjamin Haslem
BOUGHT the kids a new computer for Christmas? Are they busily surfing the
internet?
If you answered yes to both those questions, then ponder this: how is their
privacy being protected and as a parent what power do you have to step in
and tell a website company not to collect and disclose information about
your child?
Federal Labor believes the answer is not enough power, while Attorney-
General Daryl Williams said yesterday he would establish a consultative
group to advise ways to give parents greater control over their children's
privacy.



Salon.com 12/21/00
The medical privacy debate
Do Clinton's new guidelines go far enough
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2000/12/21/medical/index.html

by Dawn MacKeen
NEW YORK -- There is little doubt that the new privacy regulations issued
by President Clinton on Wednesday go a long way toward protecting patients
from the prospect of third parties getting hold of their medical records.
The new rules require most healthcare providers and insurance companies to
get patients' written consent before sharing medical information -- either
orally or written -- with others.
"The administration is to be congratulated," says ACLU associate director
Barry Steinhardt. "It is a significant step forward." A significant one,
indeed, but one that does not go far enough, say critics.



Seattle Post-Intelligencer 12/28/00
More states post prison records on Web
Growing number of criminal listings serve public but hinder ex-convicts in
society
http://seattlep-i.nwsource.com/national/inma28.shtml

by D. Ian Hopper
Associated Press
WASHINGTON -- A growing number of states are offering online databases of
inmates and parolees, allowing citizens to check on convicted neighbors and
employers to screen prospective hires.
But civil liberties groups say the Internet sites make it harder for ex-
convicts to return to society.
"There always has been a desire to get criminal information online, and a
history here of trying to balance those concerns," said Ari Schwartz,
policy analyst at the Center for Democracy and Technology in Washington.



Zdnet 12/21/00
New medical privacy rules have sweeping implications
http://www8.zdnet.com/eweek/stories/general/0,11011,2667314,00.html

by Grant DuBois
eWEEK
President Bill Clinton on Wednesday announced final standards to protect
the privacy of individuals' medical records and other health information
managed by health care providers, insurers and clearinghouses.
Mandated under the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of
1996, the privacy standards limit the nonconsensual use of medical records,
restrict the disclosure of health information to the minimum amount
necessary, establish new rules for access to records by researchers and
other parties, and give patients new rights to access their records and to
know who has accessed them.



The Times 10/31/00
Failed by the King
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,7-27424,00.html

by Michael Binyon
Bewildered, angry and frightened, the mother and sisters of Russia's last
Tsar hoped until the end that Britain would save his doomed family as they
waited for rescue by a British warship. But Britain acted too late. The
Tsar, a first cousin of George V, was shot with all his family in a cellar
of a house in Siberia in July 1918. It was the bloody climax to the
revolution which ended more than 300 years of the Romanov dynasty, gave the
world the first glimpse of the Red terror that was unleashed across the
former Russian empire and made communism a spectre that determined almost
the entire history of the 20th century.



The Times 12/07/00
Mona Lisa 'was saved from Nazis by British agent'
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-47575,00.html

by Michael Evans
Defence Editor
LEONARDO DA VINCI'S Mona Lisa has always been something of a mystery woman.
There have been questions over the reason for her enigmatic smile and her
whereabouts during the Second World War. Now the story of a secret agent
working for Britain may have the answer to the second puzzle.
Albrecht Gaiswinkler, an Austrian, rescued the painting from the Nazis,
according to the previously classified official history of the Special
Operations Executive published today.



Korea Herald 12/27/00
Half of government documents handled via computer system
http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/SITE/data/html_dir/2000/12/27/200012270082.asp

The use of computers is growing in government offices, with almost 55
percent of all government documents sent through a recently introduced
processing system.



Charleston Daily Mail 12/23/00
Falsified documents case leaves regulators worried
http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2000122329/

Associated Press
PIKEVILLE, Ky. -- After Luther Lidster pleaded guilty in federal court last
December to falsifying training documents for 12 workers in Kentucky's coal
industry, he was placed on two years' probation and fined $500.
Lidster's plea may reveal a larger problem, some regulators say.
John Franklin, commissioner of the Kentucky Department of Mines of
Minerals, said Lidster is probably one of many trainers who falsify
training documents.
"I think there's other Luther Lidsters out there," Franklin said.
The 59-year-old Lidster, whose trainer's certification was revoked by the
state and who now works as a hospital security guard in Pikeville,
acknowledged in an interview that he falsified some training documents.



Providence Journal 12/28/00
Town manager hopes to bring town records into new millenium
Currently, town records are stored on paper in several areas
http://www.projo.com/cgi-bin/story.pl/towns/04748481.htm

by Douglas Steinke
SMITHFIELD -- When Town Manager Russell R. Marcoux wants to see a deed or
death certificate, he knows it will be in one of three vacant offices at
Town Hall -- or in the basement of the East Smithfield Public Library.
Hopefully, it will be sorted in alphabetical order.
"It's something that we can't continue to ignore," Marcoux said of the
town's outdated archival system. "We've got storage stuff all over the
place."
When Marcoux became town manager last year, some records were sorted
alphabetically. Others were sorted by subject, by department or by year.





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

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