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RAIN 6/01:Open records, patient records, farmers records and more



There are 36 stories in this posting (two days worth)

CNET News 5/30/01
Companies ally for secure e-mail
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1003-200-6112943.html?tag=hot
by Robert Lemos
Pretty Good Privacy, the de facto standard for secure e-mail, got a boost on
Tuesday, when 11 organizations launched the OpenPGP Alliance, a group that
will allow software creators to test their products with others' wares.
"These companies didn't know about each other developing OpenPGP products,"
said Phil Zimmerman, founder of the OpenPGP Alliance and creator of the
original Pretty Good Privacy program, which was released almost 10 years
ago.


Columbus Dispatch 5/30/01
Documents focus of alleged Nazi guard's trial
http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/may01/714840.html
by Thomas J. Sheeran
Associated Press
CLEVELAND -- The government promised yesterday to present an identification
card, work rosters and other documents to prove that retired autoworker John
Demjanjuk was a Nazi death- camp guard who lied about his past to get into
the United States.


Florida Times-Union
E-business seminar is e-xpensive
Wharton program puts executives in line with online
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/053001/bus_6300077.html
by Maryclaire Dale
Associated Press
PHILADELPHIA -- Amy Rand had an unusual business decision on her hands.
Should she plunk down $49,000 for a three-month program at the University of
Pennsylvania's prestigious Wharton School? Or should she spend the money on
something her company really needed -- a pair of forklifts.


CNET News 5/30/01
Employee privacy under siege
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-6080066.html?tag=hot
Reuters
NEW YORK--Employee privacy in the United States is under siege as old rules
for what employers can and cannot monitor give way to a regime of everyday
observation, patchy legal protections and conflicting business priorities.


Reuters 5/29/01
Privacy: Monitoring shrinks worker privacy sphere
http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/010529/n29492670_4.html
by Eric Auchard
NEW YORK, May 29 (Reuters) - Employee privacy in the United States is under
siege as old rules for what employers can and cannot monitor give way to a
regime of everyday observation, patchy legal protections and conflicting
business priorities.


ZDNet News 5/30/01
Hacker plugs huge hole for Excite@Home
http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/zd/20010530/tc/hacker_plugs_huge_hole_for_excit
e_home_1.html
by Robert Lemos
A hacker, 'Adrien Lamo,' was able to access about 3 million Excite@Home
support records, but he did the right thing and told the company.
Not all hackers are bad--just ask Excite@Home.
The company shored up its online defenses after a hacker pointed out a
vulnerability in April that allowed access to the company's internal network
and exposed nearly 3 million support records to the public.


Pittsburgh Post-Gazette 5/30/01
Hearing set on Frick archive dispute
http://www.post-gazette.com/regionstate/20010530frick5.asp
by Marylynne Pitz
Descendants of Pittsburgh heiress Helen Clay Frick appeared in Orphans'
Court yesterday in a fruitless effort to settle a dispute over where the
family will preserve and store its valuable archives.


Technology Review June 2001
Owning the Future: Looting the Library
http://www.technologyreview.com/magazine/jun01/shulman.asp
by Seth Shulman
A few years ago, I was walking down the street in one of Manila's poorer
neighborhoods when I came upon a gaping hole where a sewer grate used to be.
It was an experience doubtless familiar to many who have traveled in the
Third World: someone had presumably looted a humble-but essential-piece of
the city's infrastructure. It brought home to me not only what a robust
infrastructure we take for granted in the West, but also how easily it can
erode.


Dallas Morning News 5/30/01
Highland Park ordered to pay for withholding Jones tape
http://www.dallasnews.com/metro/stories/380391_jones_30met.AR.html
by Lee Zethraus
A judge has ordered the town of Highland Park to pay two news organizations'
attorneys' fees stemming from the town's refusal to release videotapes of a
1999 traffic incident involving Dallas Cowboys owner Jerry Jones.


The Holland Sentinel 5/30/01
Joint Archives makes leadership transition
http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/052901/loc_0529010015.shtml
by Christina Stolarz
Geoffrey Reynolds was ready for a change and that's exactly what he got when
he recently became appointed director of the Joint Archives of Holland.
Reynolds, who started showing interest in the program in 1997, served as
collections archivist with the rank of assistant professor and then became
acting director of the archives. His new duties begin July 1.


The Indian Express 5/30/01
Archives silent on who saw Bhutto at Ferguson
http://www.indian-express.com/ie20010531/nat16.html
Reshma Patil
Pune, May 30: FROM Pakistan to Pune, this mystery remains unsolved. Days
after Fergusson College's annual magazine 2000-01 listed the late Zulfiqar
Ali Bhutto among the eminent alumni, evidence of the former Pakistan prime
minister's stint at the campus is still to surface from the college
archives.


PRNewswire 5/30/01
Florida county government employs Virage to enhance decision-making process
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/010529/sftu109.html
SAN MATEO, Calif., May 29 /PRNewswire/ -- Virage, Inc. (Nasdaq: VRGE -
news), a leading provider of software and services that enable video for
strategic online applications, today announced that Hillsborough County,
Florida is integrating the Virage Internet Video Application Platform into
their internal communications infrastructure, helping officials make
informed responses to important issues by giving them a more efficient way
to evaluate critical local topics. The County is one of the first in the
nation that will use Virage technology to create an online video database of
recorded meetings to facilitate improved performance from local government.


BusinessWire 5/29/01
KVS Inc. advances Email and information management with Enterprise Vault 3.5
http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/010529/2537.html
NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--May 29, 2001--Information management specialists
KVS Inc. today announced the release of Enterprise Vault 3.5, the latest
version of its comprehensive enterprise email management system for
Microsoft Exchange.
Enterprise Vault 3.5 eases the corporate administration, expense and storage
burden of large volume email systems by providing a centralized means to
archive, search and retrieve email and attachments.


Albuquerque Journal 5/31/01
Certain tax records ruled public
http://www.abqjournal.com/news/348370news05-31-01.htm
by Patrick Armijo
The New Mexico Court of Appeals has sided with a Placitas homeowner who has
asked to examine Sandoval County property-tax records that have long been
considered confidential.
On Friday, three state Court of Appeals judges agreed with homeowner Robert
Gordon that county assessors' property record cards containing information
used in assessing values are public records.


Bergen Record 5/31/01
Big mix-up in matters of marriage and death
http://www.bergen.com/news/filelf200105312.htm
by Laura Fasbach
They're called vital statistics. But for decades, hundreds of marriage
licenses and death certificates from Edgewater were shoved in cardboard
boxes and placed in the Borough Hall attic or haphazardly thrown into
cabinets.
Documents that were supposed to be sent to Trenton were not. Signatures
required by law were never obtained. Some records from a seven-year period
were feared lost until they finally turned up last week. Records for dogs
and cats were easier to find on file than those for people.


Bloomberg.com 5/30/01
Bridgestone/Firestone ordered to produce tire-failure records
http://quote.bloomberg.com/fgcgi.cgi?ptitle=Top%20Financial%20News&s1=blk&tp
=ad_topright_topfin&T=markets_bfgcgi_content99.ht&s2=ad_right1_topfin&bt=ad_
position1_topfin&middle=ad_frame2_topfin&s=AOxWP5BbJQnJpZGdl
by Lawrence Viele
Indianapolis, May 30 (Bloomberg) -- A federal magistrate judge ordered
Bridgestone/Firestone Inc. to turn over customer- complaint records the
company has fought to keep secret in hundreds of lawsuits over
sometimes-fatal tread failures.


Boston Globe 5/31/01
Calling Japan to account
http://www.boston.com/dailyglobe2/151/nation/Calling_Japan_to_account%2b.sht
ml
by Mark Fritz
The enemy attacked and the army retreated, except for Nininger. He ran
straight into the assault, shooting snipers out of trees, hurling grenades
into foxholes, bayoneting anybody who got in his way. Three times he was
wounded, but the soldier kept moving. He scooped up an enemy machine gun and
sprayed bullets into bodies until, finally, he fell.


CNET News 5/31/01
Online storage firm shutters file depot
http://investor.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6136225-0.html?t
ag=ats
by Gwendolyn Mariano
News.com
Online storage company Myspace.com has ceased its free storage service,
prompting many of its customers to scramble to retrieve their digital files
before they are deleted.
San Francisco-based Myspace says on its Web site that people can obtain
their files until Friday at 5 p.m. PDT. Myspace previously let people store,
organize, share and distribute digital files--including music, photos and
documents--for free through a password-protected account.


Hampton Roads Daily Press 5/31/01
New owner plans to destroy unclaimed hospital records
http://www.dailypress.com/news/final/stories/49924sy0.htm
by Fred Carroll
NEWPORT NEWS - Medical records left behind when Newport News General
Hospital closed in 1997 will be destroyed by Oct. 1 if former patients don't
take them before then.
Youth Services International and Holy Tabernacle Housing and Economic
Development Corp. have worked to return the records since they bought the
hospital for $5.2 million in January.


Dallas Morning News 5/31/01
Feeding off others
Plagiarists abound in a cut-and-paste environment
http://www.dallasnews.com/technology/380617_eplagarize_31p.html
by Paula Felps
Last September, Rosalind Mays was enjoying success as the author of the
e-book How You Can Make Money at Home when she learned that her work was
being sold on another Web site - under another writer's name.
"Several people who had read my e-book e-mailed me and told me that someone
was selling a book that was exactly like the book I had written and promoted
for the past two years," says Ms. Mays, who lives in the San Francisco Bay
Area.


Washington Times 5/23/01
Ex-FBI man seeks Whitewater papers
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010523-71639052.htm
by Jerry Seper
Former President Clinton´s attorney and Arkansas State Police violated the
law in refusing to make public 10 boxes of documents collected during the
Whitewater investigation, a former FBI supervisor says.
Agent Ivian C. Smith, who headed the FBI´s Little Rock, Ark., field office
during the height of the Whitewater probe, said in a Freedom of Information
Act lawsuit he was denied access to the never-released documents in what he
called an effort to keep them from becoming public.


Wired 5/31/01
If you can't track'em, join'em
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,44171,00.html
by Brad King
An alliance between three media file-tracking companies makes it possible to
monitor, track, contact and shut down the systems of users who engage in
illegal activity on the Internet.


Las Vegas Review-Journal 5/31/01
Police must reduce fees for photo reproductions
$4 each for 425 copies sought for lawsuit is gouging, attorney says
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/May-31-Thu-2001/news/16215787.html
by Ryan Oliver
A judge Wednesday ordered the Metropolitan Police Department to reduce the
fees it wanted to charge a local attorney for the reproduction of
photographs in connection with a wrongful death lawsuit.
Capt. Greg McCurdy of the department's Criminalistics Bureau said that upon
hearing the complaint from attorney Don Campbell, the bureau took action to
reduce the rate before the ruling.


SearchEngineWatch.com 5/23/01
Meta search or Meta ads?
http://searchenginewatch.com/sereport/01/05-metasearch.html
by Danny Sullivan
Do a search on two different search engines, and you'll almost certainly see
differences when comparing the results each provides. That's because major
search engines commonly have different databases of listings than their
competitors and because they use different methods of sorting these listings
in response to searches.


The Daily Star 5/31/01
No Corruption: 'What is not secret is public'
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/31_05_01/art13.htm
by Samar Kanafani
Everyone must have the right to access public information if transparency is
to be achieved and corruption successfully fought, said Salim Azar, head of
a local anti-corruption group.
Azar was speaking at the American University of Beirut's Alumni Club on
Wednesday, where the No Corruption group convened a round table discussion
on access to public information.


New York Times 5/31/01
PowerPoint invades the classroom
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/05/31/technology/31POWE.html
by Lisa Guernsey
Kelvin Mazara, a seventh grader at the Edison School in Union City, N.J.,
could not have appeared more engrossed in the morning's assignment. He and
his classmates had been asked to assemble a report about a play they had
just read, "A Raisin in the Sun" by Lorraine Hansberry, and Kelvin's teacher
was reviewing the topics to address: Who are the major characters? What are
the conflicts? What are the broad themes?


Columbus Dispatch 5/31/01
Open-records group gets $3,000 in suit against ex-Hilliard mayor
http://www.dispatch.com/news/news01/may01/716057.html
by Ray Crumbley
An open-records crusader who sued former Hilliard Mayor Roger Reynolds for
$20 million settled his case for $3,000.
It's the largest monetary victory yet for the Ohio Sunshine Union, founded
by Kenneth R. Besser, a lawyer, to fight for public access to government
records.


Palm Beach Post 5/31/01
Law shields farmers' records from public
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/business_7.html
by Susan Salisbury
In a bid to get more farmers to participate in pollution-control programs,
the state Legislature has approved a law that will shield the farmers'
operational records from public disclosure.


Cleveland Plain Dealer 5/31/01
Parma Hospital records should be open, court told
http://www.cleveland.com/news/plaindealer/index.ssf?/xml/story.ssf/html_stan
dard.xsl?/base/news/9913014081638346.xml
by T.C. Brown
COLUMBUS - A hospital that provides service to the community and is
supported by taxes should have its records open to the public, a lawyer told
the Ohio Supreme Court yesterday.


Tampa Bay Tribune 5/31/01
Patients wait at failed clinic to get records
http://www.tampatrib.com/FloridaMetro/MGAXMOPSDNC.html
by Liz Bleau
RUSKIN - More than 200 people, most of them senior citizens, stood in the
morning heat for up to three hours Wednesday trying to get medical records
from the closed Sunpoint Diagnostic Clinic.
Some of those who lined up tried last week to get their records but could
not because they did not have a medical records number from their doctor's
office.

Sun-Sentinel 5/31/01
UM develops code to hamper illegal copying of music files
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/local/miami/sfl-cdigital31may31.story?coll=
sfla%2Dnews%2Dmiami
by Karla Schuster
Miami · The University of Miami is angling to make its mark in the
high-stakes world of marketing professors' research with a new method of
coding digital audio files to prevent illegal downloading of music from the
Internet.


The Log Cabin Democrat 5/31/01
Some state police documents subpoenaed in Whitewater released
http://www.thecabin.net/stories/053101/sta_0531010057.shtml
Associated Press
LITTLE ROCK (AP) -- The Arkansas State Police on Wednesday released a small
portion of the records returned to the agency by the Office of Independent
Counsel that the OIC used in its investigation of former President Bill
Clinton.
The 90 pages include routine records from the early 1980s and early 1990s
kept by state police assigned to the governor's security detail.


The Citizen 5/31/01
Town's trustees resign
http://www.citizen.com/news2001/May/31/sanb0531c.htm
by Gordon D. King
SANBORNTON - Claiming they are tired of what they view as on-going
harassment and accusations of mismanagement, the town's three trustee of
trust funds have resigned.


Network News 5/31/01
Flaming crisis over storage of backups
http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1122200
by Paul Allen
Students at London's City University are anxious to discover whether backup
tapes containing their work have been damaged after a fire raged through the
computing department last week.
A spokeswoman for the university said that backup tapes had been stored in a
fireproof safe in the same building as the server room. "Backup tapes have
been retrieved, but we don't yet know whether all data had been backed up,"
she said.


Washington Post 5/31/01
Identity thieves thrive in Information Age
Rise of online data brokers makes criminal impersonation easier
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A77996-2001May25.html
by Robert O'Harrow Jr.
The identity thieves began their scam the old-fashioned way, stealing credit
card statements, new bank checks and other documents from mailboxes in a
neighborhood just south of Portland, Ore.
But their operation took a high-tech turn that confirmed what law
enforcement authorities and privacy specialists have long suspected:
Criminal groups, like legitimate businesses, are using commercial online
data brokers, which collect and sell personal information.


Washington Post 5/31/01
Witness: Demjanjuk documents real
http://washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/nation/states/oh/A99161-2001May30.html
by Thomas J. Sheeran
AP
CLEVELAND -- A witness testified Wednesday that documents the government is
using in its second attempt to prove a retired autoworker was a Nazi death
camp guard appear to be authentic.
The Justice Department is seeking to strip Ukrainian-born John Demjanjuk,
81, of his U.S. citizenship. Prosecutors say documents including a
Nazi-issued identification card prove Demjanjuk was a guard.



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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