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RAIN 03/20: The Trouble with Computers



Amednews.com 03/26/01
Patient privacy rights extend beyond electronic records
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_01/bica0326.htm

by Steven M. Harris
Starting now, you have two years to comply with the Dept. of Health and Human
Services rules on personal health information privacy standards. In its final
form, the rule is far more broad than HHS originally contemplated.
The bottom line is, you are obligated to protect your patient's information,
both in getting the patient's consent to share it and getting it in writing
that whomever you share it with won't misuse the information.


Calgary Herald 03/19/01
Thief nabs Tory staffer's laptop contained politically sensitive files
http://www.southam.com/calgaryherald/newsnow/cpfs/national/010317/n031719.html

OTTAWA (CP) - Police are investigating the theft of a computer with
politically sensitive files taken from Conservative leader Joe Clark's
research office.
"I'm concerned records of ours that were private have been stolen and the
Ottawa police are looking into it," Clark said at his Calgary Centre
constituency office Saturday.
The missing laptop belongs to Clark's press secretary, Stacey Gray. It
contained electronic files related to Tory strategy on the "Shawinigate"
affair involving the prime minister's business dealings.



CNET News.com 03/01/01
Film legends, frayed photos are Net gold mine
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-4992492.html

by Greg Sandoval
Owners of archived films, photos, books and old TV shows may want to loosen
their grip on some of their aging treasures.
There's a growing demand for archived content to be made available over the
Internet, to the tune of $2.2 billion this year, said Web research firm
Jupiter Media Metrix. The market could triple in the next five years, Jupiter
predicts.



CNET News.com 03/15/01
ICQ logs spark corporate nightmate
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5148422.html

by Paul Festa
Thousands of confidential messages between the CEO of an Internet company and
top executives have been posted on the Web, stirring up a hornet's nest of
corporate intrigue and providing a rare glimpse into a dot-com as it
struggled to cope with a brutal shakeout.
Last week, hundreds of pages of the ICQ instant messaging logs were posted on
the Web and copied onto various sites, creating the kind of information
security breach that has become one of the worst corporate nightmares of the
digital age. The logs, which were apparently snatched from a PC used by Sam
Jain, CEO of eFront, have nearly paralyzed his company and created a personal
nightmare for Jain.



CNET News.com 03/15/01
Are ICQ logs admissible in court?
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-5149126.html

by Lisa M. Bowman
The posting of thousands of instant messages between a CEO and his executives
has created a cottage industry for people looking for evidence of possible
illegal activity. But whether information derived from the logs could be used
in court is an unsettled legal question.
Hundreds of pages of ICQ instant messaging logs were posted on the Web and
copied onto various sites last week. The logs, apparently snatched by a
hacker from a computer used by Sam Jain, CEO of eFront, have prompted a
personal nightmare and crippled his company.
Judging from the messages posted on various Web sites, hundreds of people
have been scanning the files, looking for everything from gossip to evidence
of nefarious activities.



CNET News.com 03/15/01
Last year's IRS e-filing hacker-friendly
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1007-200-5151043.html

by Troy Wolverton
You might want to think twice about filing a tax return online.
Last year, the Internal Revenue Service left its e-filing system all but open
to hackers, according to a report released Thursday by the General Accounting
Office. Worse yet, the IRS had no way of telling whether its systems actually
had been broken into, according to the GAO, the investigative arm of
Congress.
"IRS did not adequately secure access to its electronic filing systems or to
the electronically transmitted tax return data those systems contained," the
GAO said in its report. "We demonstrated that unauthorized individuals, both
internal and external to IRS, could have viewed and modified taxpayer data."



CNET News.com 02/08/01
Web's oldest music site could become history
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-4757798.html

by John Borland
The Internet Underground Music Archive, possibly the oldest major music site
on the Net, is on life support, looking for last-minute financial rescue.
The IUMA site is shutting its doors to new artists, and a chapter in the
Net's history may be closing with it. IUMA got its start in 1993 when a pair
of students at University of California at Santa Cruz created a server for
distributing their own band's and others' demo tapes and wound up attracting
the attention of several major music labels.



Computer User 03/19/01
Agencies making progress toward e-government
http://www.computeruser.com/news/01/03/19/news2.html

by Newsbyte Staff
Most federal agencies are making progress in their mandate to provide public
electronic access to internal, non-classified documents, the General
Accounting Office (GAO) said in a report released last week.
The GAO's report details the implementation of the Electronic Freedom of
Information Act--or e-FOIA--passed five years ago. The e-FOIA Act directed
federal agencies to--at the very least--make public documents available in
"electronic reading rooms," on agency premises.



Naples Daily News 03/19/01
Legislature 2001: Earnhardt's widow urges lawmakers to pass autopsy photo bill
http://www.naplesnews.com/01/03/florida/d544865a.htm

Associated Press
TALLAHASSEE - Dale Earnhardt's widow urged Florida lawmakers to quickly pass
a bill that would require the public to get a judge's approval to see autopsy
photos.
In a statement released Sunday, Teresa Earnhardt said the legislation would
save families from the pain she experienced while struggling to keep the
NASCAR driving legend's autopsy photos private.



Canada Newswire 03/19/01
Provenance adds ForeMost RecordsActivator for Documentum to Product Line
http://www.newswire.ca/releases/March2001/19/c4568.html

WASHINGTON, D.C., March 19 /CNW/ - Provenance Systems, the world leader
in electronic records management software, announced today the release of
their ForeMost Enterprise RecordsActivator for Documentum 4i. This latest
release enables organizations utilizing Documentum 4i to apply ForeMost's
advanced recordkeeping policies and procedures, including retention,
migration and disposition to documents and content created in 4i.



Philadelphia Inquirer 03/19/01
At Lincoln U., unearthing a trove of black history
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/03/19/city/EARCHIVE19.htm

by Jonathan Gelb
LINCOLN UNIVERSITY - In a bland, windowless room at the nation's oldest
historically black college, amid stacks of moldering files and sheaves of
tattered papers, Ed Gibson makes history.
Literally.
One of two archivists at Lincoln University, Gibson sifts methodically
through 65 musty boxes of lost letters, worn books and wilted posters that
bring to life black history in the Philadelphia region and the nation.
Like a scavenger, he picks through papers one by one and indexes documents
for students and scholars. Without the meticulous effort of archivists such
as Gibson, many valuable documents would never be found.




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

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