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RAIN 5/08: Privacy, P-tags, InFind



ABCNews.com 5/01/01
InFind found no more
http://abcnews.go.com/sections/scitech/DailyNews/infind010501.html

by Logan Nakyanzi
In the Internet shakedown, jobs aren't the only things that hang in the
balance. Web sites with unique technologies and approaches are also falling
by the wayside - despite cadres of loyal users. One of the latest:
InFind.com
InFind was one of many meta-search Web sites - search engines that explore
other search engines, such as Excite, Lycos, and Yahoo!, and group the
results in one easy-to-read list. Many favored InFind's technique because it
saved the time and effort of doing multiple searches. And usually, users
found just what they were looking for.


Albuquerque Journal 5/7/01
Donation by UNM criticized
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/326267news05-07-01.htm

by Olivier Uyttebrouck
A collection of mathematics journals - 803 scholarly tomes once stored in
the basement of a University of New Mexico library - would seem to be an
unlikely subject of campus controversy.
But a decision by library administrators last year to give away several
complete collections of prestigious math journals, some dating back to the
1800s, has some faculty members demanding explanations and questioning
whether the move violates state law.



Anchorage Daily News 5/7/01
Privacy bill OK'd in Senate
http://www.adn.com/metro/story/0,2633,264363,00.html

by Dan Joling
Associated Press
Juneau -- A bill aimed at preventing the state from having to pay for
abortions or for benefits for unmarried partners won approval in the Senate
on Sunday.
On a 12-8 vote, senators approved SB 210, which states that rights to
privacy set out in the Alaska Constitution do not create a right to receive
public money, a public benefit or a public service.



The Maneater 5/3/01
Audit finds some open records in Missouri are closed
http://news.excite.com/news/uw/010503/politics-126

by Taryn Hodison
(U-WIRE) COLUMBIA, Mo. -- The Missouri State Auditor's Office released a
report on inadequate Sunshine Law policies at government institutions on
April 17. Forty-four percent of state agencies did not comply with the
Freedom of Information Act, according to the report
The Sunshine Law is designed to give public access to some government
information.



New York Times 5/7/01
Compressed Data: Copyright rules get another challenger
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07AIMS.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Amy Harmon
With use of Napster, the Internet music-swapping service, declining sharply
as the company complies with a court order to prevent its users from trading
copyrighted material, another service is stepping in to test the legal
boundaries of copyright in the digital age.



Birmingham News 5/7/01
Dr. McCoy to sickbay
http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/?May2001/7-e364313b.html

by Anna Velasco
The future is here.
HealthSouth Corp. made headlines in March when it announced it would build
the world's first all-digital, wireless hospital with software giant Oracle
Corp.
Patients will have consoles at their bedsides to access their electronic
medical records. Wireless monitors will enter their vital signs directly
into those records. Doctors will order prescriptions electronically and sign
with a thumbprint.



Philadelphia Inquirer 5/7/01
Ellis Island genealogy database swamped
http://inq.philly.com/content/inquirer/2001/05/07/front_page/JELLIS07.htm

by Jake Wagman
It's 4 a.m., and Carole Joiner is staring at the hourglass icon on her
computer screen.
The Gloucester City resident is looking for immigration records of her
paternal grandparents, who came to this country through the Port of New York
at the turn of the century.
An amateur genealogist, Joiner was elated when she learned that she would
finally be able to trace her immigrant roots through documents posted on the
Internet last month.



The Irish Times 5/7/01
No files on pension fund nominees
http://www.ireland.com/newspaper/finance/2001/0507/fin1.htm

by John McManus
The Department of Finance has no record of the process by which the seven
members of the National Pensions Reserve Fund were selected and appointed by
the Minister for Finance, Mr McCreevy.
A request under the Freedom of Information Act for "all records relating to
the appointment of the members of the National Pensions Reserve Fund
Commission" produced no documents covering the appointment of the members of
the commission, which will be responsible for up to euro 30 billion (£24
billion) of State funds over the next 25 years.




Associated Press 5/7/01
Newly discovered airport bid documents raise new questions
http://fl.mlive.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/cgi-free/getstory_ssf.cgi?g7496_BC_
MI--AirportTransporta&&news&newsflash-michigan

ROMULUS, Mich. (AP) -- A recently discovered document of a 1990 bid for
luxury sedan service at Detroit Metropolitan Airport is raising new
questions about the process.
The document, found in April by Wayne County purchasing director Walter
Beard, shows that Metro Cars Inc. made the highest bid in 1990 to provide
sedan service at the airport. The document was in a basement where the
county stores state records.
Airports director Lester Robinson told the Detroit Free Press in a written
statement that the documents "prove conclusively that the process was
handled correctly and that Metro Cars was properly awarded the contract."



New York Times 5/7/01
Underground Mail Road
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07TUBE.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Robin Pogrebin
In the bowels of New York City a century ago, not only was there the whoosh
of water through pipes and the whiz of subways through tunnels, there was
the zip of mail moving through pneumatic tubes at about 30 miles per hour.
The tubes - others snaked under Boston, Philadelphia, Chicago and St. Louis
- were put into use by the United States Post Office in 1897. In Manhattan,
they extended about 27 miles, from the old Custom House in Battery Park to
Harlem and back through Times Square, Grand Central Terminal and the main
post office near Pennsylvania Station. At the City Hall station, the mail
went over the Brooklyn Bridge to the general post office in Brooklyn.



Ottawa Citizen 5/7/01
Two more documents forged, BDC claims
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/national/010507/5027218.html

By Joan Bryden
Officials at the Business Development Bank of Canada (BDC) believe at least
three falsified or phoney documents have been leaked to the media in a bid
to bolster allegations of political interference in a controversial loan to
the Auberge Grand-Mere.
Until now, the BDC has alleged only one document was forged, which it has
asked the RCMP to investigate, but now the bank says at least two others are
suspicious.



New York Times 5/7/01
New Economy: Privacy concerns for Google archive
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/technology/07NECO.html

by Susan Stellin
With some decent search skills, a bit of free time and a degree of
skepticism about what one ultimately finds, a person can learn a lot by
trolling through an archive of Internet bulletin boards that has once again
become available online.
In February, the Internet search service Google bought from the failed
information site Deja.com an archive of more than 650 million messages
posted on electronic bulletin boards, known as Usenet newsgroups, that dates
to 1995.



Popular Mechanics May 2001
It's in the Cards
SanDisk's new P-Tag archives your past to ensure your future
http://www.popularmechanics.com/popmech/elect/0105EFCOWFAP.html

by Jonathan Gromer
It's 8 pm and a woman dressed in a dark business suit strolls through the
doors of the emergency room of a hospital in Dallas. She files past an
assortment of tired-faced people waiting on benches, each suffering in their
own way as a TV drones in the background. Walking up to the attendant, she
starts to tell her story. She's pregnant, traveling on business and doesn't
feel well. Filling out some paperwork, she's assigned a space in the queue
and takes her place on a bench.



Los Angeles Times 5/6/01
Privacy cases not yielding much payoff
http://www.latimes.com/business/20010506/t000038096.html

by Edmund Sanders
WASHINGTON--Not long ago, invasion of privacy looked as if it might follow
in the legal footsteps of securities fraud, tobacco deaths and exploding
tires as a source of multimillion-dollar court judgments for consumers doing
battle with giant corporations.
Instead, consumers suing over alleged misuse of their personal information
have suffered a string of courtroom setbacks and paltry settlements. Based
on several pending out-of-court deals, the going rate for corporate
invasions of personal privacy appears to be about $50 a pop, hardly the gold
mine predicted by class-action attorneys.



New York Times 5/7/01
Privacy policy notices are called too common and too confusing
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/07/business/07PRIV.html

by John Schwartz
Since last month, millions of American consumers have been getting a little
something extra tucked in with their credit card bills, bank statements or
insurance policy mailings: privacy notices. Millions of them, and in many
cases dozens per household, will arrive before July 1.



Santa Fe Mexican 5/7/01
Guadalupe parish seeks documents relating to bare-midriff Virgin
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=1779209&BRD=2144&PAG=4
61&dept_id=367954&rfi=6

Associated Press
SANTA FE (AP) - Our Lady of Guadalupe parishioners have asked the state
Office of Cultural Affairs for documents relating to a decision on whether
to keep a bare-midriff image of the Virgin Mary in a state museum.



Sun-Sentinel 5/7/01
Privacy opt-out a covert mission
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/sfl-ybheady07may07.story?coll=sfla%2Dbu
siness%2Dheadlines

by Robert K. Heady
Readers are incensed -- "outraged," said one -- at the way they're being
fooled and stonewalled by financial institutions' devious moves to prevent
them from safeguarding their privacy.
In last week's column I told you how, under a new federal law, banks,
brokerages and insurance companies by July 1 must give you a chance to "opt
out" if you don't want them to sell or share your personal information with
other outfits. That's why they're sending out hundreds of millions of pieces
of literature.



Atlanta Journal-Constitution 5/6/01
Clayton graduates urged to consider government careers
School unique in storing state, regional archives
http://www.accessatlanta.com/partners/ajc/epaper/editions/sunday/local_news_
a34faf52e6422288003d.html

by Alan Judd
On a campus about to become a repository for government documents, Clayton
College & State University's graduating seniors were urged Saturday to
consider careers in public service.
"It is an honorable and deeply rewarding profession," said the school's
commencement speaker, Richard L. Claypoole, an assistant archivist with the
National Archives and Records Administration in Washington. Claypoole said
he has represented the federal government for 32 years --- since joining the
U.S. Army in 1969, the year Clayton College opened.



The Scotsman Online 5/7/01
Pandora software set to drop net piracy
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/business.cfm?id=69692

Andrew Murray-Watson
AN EDINBURGH-BASED software company is set to put Napster and other internet
copyright pirates out of business for good, following the launch of a new
product designed to protect online intellectual property.
The company, provisionally called Pandora - the second spin out in as many
years from internet security experts Buchanan - will prevent the copying of
internet documents and pave the way for publishers and music companies to
offer their products online without the fear of piracy.




Today's News 5/7/01
Ebrary brings the past into the future with content from Digital Scanning
Inc.
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-07
-2001/0001486424&EDATE=

Electronic Reproductions of Historical Documents to be Available on
ebrary.com MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., May 7 /PRNewswire/ -- Historians, students
and anyone interested in early U.S. history will soon be able to access
exact reproductions of rare, out-of-print books and other valuable
historical documents from Web-enabled computers.


Toledo Blade 5/7/01
Petersburg assesses fire toll at city offices
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/artikkel?Avis=TO&Dato=20010507&Kate
gori=NEWS19&Lopenr=105070021&Ref=AR

PETERSBURG - The wheels of government will grind on but the city's municipal
building may face a wrecking ball after a fire Saturday damaged it and four
other downtown buildings, city officials said.
Records covering property taxes, water consumption, and voter registration
are all safe, city officials said. So are city payroll and account records.



InfoWorld 5/4/01
When should the burden of informing customers of a hacker break-in begin?
http://idg.net/ic_530272_1794_9-10000.html

Ed Foster
The Gripe Line
WE ALL WORRY enough about the possibility of a hacker somehow getting hold
of our account information from a service provider, so the last thing we
need is another worry. But here it is: If your data is compromised, will
your service provider warn you promptly?



Wall Street Journal 5/7/01
Web Site draws SEC concern in bid battle of timber rivals
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB989182934423180870.htm

by Robin Sidel
"A 14D-what?"
That was the response of Brad Pomroy, an employee at Willamette Industries
Inc., when told by the Securities and Exchange Commission that a Web site
devoted to the opposition of Weyerhaeuser Co.'s $5.4 billion hostile bid for
Willamette might be violating securities laws.
To keep the site operating, Mr. Pomroy and the rest of the Willamette
employee group that created and ran it would have to file formal documents
with the regulatory agency -- hence the reference to 14D-9, a common filing
required in takeover fights.






Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
Manager, Records Management Group
Woodside Summit Group Inc
Midlothian, Virginia
Office: 804-744-1247 x23
Fax: 804-744-4947
mailto:peter.kurilecz@woodsidesummitgroup.com

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