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RAIN 01/01/01: Weekend Update Part 1



The Advocate 12/29/00
Advocate sues LSU for records
http://www.theadvocate.com/news/story.asp?StoryID=18365

by Michelle Millhollon
The publisher of The Advocate and one of its reporters sued the LSU Board of
Supervisors Thursday, demanding the release of records on the search for a
new LSU athletic director.
Capital City Press and Advocate sports writer Glenn Guilbeau say in the suit
that the documents are public record.
The university has refused to release some documents related to the search,
saying they are in the custody of an Atlanta firm hired by LSU to hunt for a
replacement for retiring Athletics Director Joe Dean.


Hunstsville Times 12/29/00
Police documents left behind in May move
http://www.al.com/news/huntsville/Dec2000/29-e13394.html

by Wendy Reeves
The Huntsville Police Department is trying to figure out why a number of
police documents were left at its old headquarters downtown when it vacated
the building.
Investigators are also looking to see whether a television news reporter and
a videographer will face misdemeanor criminal charges for taking some of the
documents from the building after finding them. The documents have since been
returned to police by WAAY-TV Channel 31.



NOLA Live 12/29/00
Newspaper sues to obtain LSU search documents
http://www.nolalive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?n1655_B

C_LA--LSUAD&&news&newsflash-louisiana

Associated Press
BATON ROUGE, La. (AP) -- The publisher of Baton Rouge's daily newspaper and
one of its reporters sued the LSU Board of Supervisors, demanding the release
of records on the search for a new LSU athletic director.
The university has refused to release some documents related to the search,
telling The Advocate newspaper that they are in the custody of an Atlanta
firm hired by LSU to hunt for a replacement for retiring Athletics Director
Joe Dean.
But the Capital City Press and Advocate sports writer Glenn Guilbeau said in
the suit they filed Thursday that the documents are public record.



Long Beach Press-Telegram 12/29/00
Home hunted for L.B. history
http://www.ptconnect.com/archive/today/new07.asp

by Paul Young
LONG BEACH First some facts: Ken Larkey can answer just about any question
concerning Long Beach history. He has hundreds of pieces of local memorabilia
that nobody else has. And he doesn't have much money.
Add the fact that he's about to lose his storage space, and this means one
thing: Larkey's in trouble and so is his collection.
"If I don't get a building, (my collection) will go out on the street and
I'll have to put it on the auction block. What else can I do?" said Larkey,
73, standing in a dusty warehouse near downtown Long Beach. Among stacks of
old boxes and treasures, there is a car from the Pike's Cyclone Racer roller
coaster, an ornate soda fountain from the Harriman Jones Drug Store, and a
1930s wool bathing suit from the Long Beach Bathhouse.



Earthweb 12/23/00
Differentiating content management, document management and portals
http://developer.earthweb.com/earthweb/cda/dlink.resource-jhtml.72.952.|reposi

tory||itmanagement|content|article|2000|12|20|EMwarzechametablur|EMwarzechamet

ablur~xml.0.jhtml?cda=true

by Andrew Warzecha
META Trend: By 2003, 95% of the G2000 will deploy XML-based content
management infrastructures - often integrating document management, media
asset management, imaging, and electronic output management-to support
anonymous authoring, application publishing, and dynamic virtual folders
(data extraction, dynamic assembly, process automation, format translation,
repository services, rights management, federated search, personalization,
etc.) across Internet, extranet, and intranet venues.



West Central Tribune 12/29/00
Hatch sues Fleet Mortgage over privacy
http://www.wctrib.com/stories/friday29/n021229.htm

by Christopher Sprung
ST. PAUL 12/29/00 -- In a consumer protection case thought to be the first of
its kind in the nation, Attorney General Mike Hatch filed a lawsuit Thursday
against one of America's largest home mortgage companies over data privacy
and telemarketing concerns.
The three-count complaint filed in Hennepin County District Court accuses
Columbia, S.C.-based Fleet Mortgage Corporation of deceptive trade practices,
consumer fraud and false advertising.
Hatch alleges that the mortgage-servicing company violated its own data
privacy policies by providing or selling detailed information about its
mortgage customers to third-party telemarketing partners.



MSNBC.com 12/29/00
Cyberspace security: The death of privacy?
Information technology can be a threat as well as a blessing. What rules do
we need to prevent misuse of all the personal data that we trail behind us
when we navigate the Web?
http://www.msnbc.com/news/508910.asp

by Christine Varney
Newsweek
Jan. 2001 - At the beginning of the last century, my grandparents sailed to
America, leaving behind their Irish farming village. The people in their
community knew my family's history, their opinions and personalities,
friendships and feuds.
AT THE BEGINNING OF THIS CENTURY, we are in some ways returning to that
village. Online and at work, we are organizing ourselves as a series of tight
knit communities where secrets are very hard to keep. We are, once again,
becoming a transparent society-one where everyone knows everything about
everyone else in real time. But today, the communities are digital and often
global, and the information isn't in words but bytes. There also are some
significant differences between today's electronic transparency and the
personal familiarity of the rural agrarian village.



Nando Times 12/28/00
Fleet Mortgage accused of violating customers' privacy
http://www.nandotimes.com/business/story/0,1032,500294222-500467668-503152388-

0,00.html

by Patrick Howe
Associated Press
ST. PAUL, Minn. (December 28, 2000 5:59 p.m. EST http://www.nandotimes.com) -
The attorney general of Minnesota is suing Fleet Mortgage Inc., accusing the
Boston-based company of violating consumers' privacy rights by sharing their
account numbers and other personal information with telemarketers.
The lawsuit, the latest in a series of efforts by Attorney General Mike Hatch
to fight corporate invasions of privacy, seeks an injunction, restitution for
consumers and other relief under state laws.



Eastside Journal 12/28/00
U.S. Bank customers may get cash settlement
New Year's Eve deadline to file invasion of privacy claims against bank
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/retr_story.pl/38739

Eastsiders who bank at U.S. Bank might be entitled to cash from a
class-action civil suit settlement, after the bank was accused of violating
the privacy of thousands of its customers.
So far, only a fraction of those who might be eligible for settlement money
have come forward, said a spokesman in the Minnesota Attorney General's
Office. With a deadline for mailing claims coming this New Year's Eve, time
is slipping away for people to get their money.



AtNewyork.com 12/28/00
Under pressure from CARU, Oxygen changes privacy policy
http://www.atnewyork.com/news/article/0,1471,8471_546731,00.html

by Ryan Naraine
Silicon Alley multimedia play Oxygen Media was forced to tweak its privacy
policy after the Better Business Bureau's Children's Advertising Review Unit
(CARU) found infractions of its guidelines.
CARU, which acts as the Bureau's watchdog for issues relating to under-aged
Web users, said Oxygen contradicted its own privacy policy by not providing a
parental consent mechanism on three of its Web sites -- BreakUpGirl.com,
GirlsOn.com and Trackers.net -- sites offering content to a teenage audience.



Digitrends 12/28/00
Q&A - Privacy officer keeps online business in line
http://www.digitrends.net/marketing/11524_13087.html

by Abby Garcia