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RAIN 8/16 Part 1: Privacy, web tracking and slavery



There are 19  stories in this posting.

ANANOVA 8/14/01
Database to chart history of Black and Asian London
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_374463.html?menu=news.technology

The British Library is to build a website charting 465 years of Black and
Asian history in London.
The plan is to establish a website culling records from a number of
different sources, including the British Library and India office.


Kennebec Journal 8/14/01
Archives finish repairs, reopen doors to public
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010814archives.shtml

by AUGUSTA - Robert Russ, a longtime staffer at the Maine State Archives,
still remembers how he felt last March when he showed up for work after a
broken water filter flooded the three-story repository.
"I was heartbroken," Russ recalled Monday.


The Daily Record 8/14/01
Carnegie seeks judgement
http://www.mddailyrecord.com/current_issues/2_37_law/legalnews/49881-1.html

by Joe Surkiewicz
Saying a senior executive at its former accounting firm destroyed evidence
knowing a lawsuit was pending, Hunt Valley telecom firm Carnegie
International made a motion for a judgment in its favor yesterday against
the firm, Grant Thornton LLP, in a $2.1 billion lawsuit in Baltimore City
Circuit Court.


CNET News.com 8/14/01
Privacy groups to widen complaint against Microsoft
http://news.cnet.com/investor/news/newsitem/0-9900-1028-6876114-0.html?tag=a
ts

by Andy Sullivan and Peter Kaplan
Reuters
Consumer advocates said on Tuesday they will expand their privacy complaint
against Microsoft Corp.'s new Windows XP operating system and Internet
identity service. A group of 13 consumer and privacy groups said that on
Wednesday it will submit a new, beefed-up version of the complaint that it
filed with the U.S. Federal Trade Commission last month. The groups want the
FTC to investigate whether Microsoft's collection of personal information
amounts to an "unfair and deceptive trade practice" under federal law.



Europemedia.net 8/10/01
Company officers and directors may be liable for security breaches
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=5055

Company corporate officers and directors are legally responsible, and
potentially liable, for the protection of a company's information systems
and corporate data, according to attorney and cyber-security legal expert
Daniel J. Langin in a recent report by Recourse Technologies.
This would make companies, their corporate officers and directors vulnerable
to lawsuits due to the growing number of statutes and business contracts,
such as the US Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996
(HIPAA) and the European Council's Draft


Irish Independent 8/14/01
Insurers concerned over new patient record system
http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/stories.php3?ca=9&si=494484&issue_id=
5083

by Eilish O'Regan, Health Correspondent
SERIOUS concerns about the confidentiality of highly sensitive patient
records being transferred from manual to electronic systems, in the absence
of proper staff training, were sounded yesterday by insurers.
"The health sector is deluding itself into thinking that it is ready for the
transition to electronic patients records," warned Ann O'Driscoll of the St
Paul insurance company which covers doctors and other health professionals.



Kennebec Journal 8/14/01
NLRB nixes charges in Madison case
http://www.centralmaine.com/news/stories/010814gordon_m.shtml

by Darla Pickett
MADISON - The National Labor Relations Board on Monday dismissed charges
that the town had inappropriately withheld documents regarding the temporary
suspension of Sgt. Lewis E. Gordon Jr., according to the town manager.
Town Manager Norman A. Dean said he gave union officials and the labor board
some documents on Monday but said he believes they were "some I think they
had already."



New York Times 8/14/01
A planned museum would lead Charleston to its past
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/arts/14ARTS.html

by Stephen Kinzer
Charleston, S.C. --Few places preserve and market their history as lovingly
as Charleston, but until now many people here have been reluctant to face
the important role this city played in the African slave trade.
Charleston was the principal port of entry for African slaves into British
North America. After repressing this collective memory for generations, city
officials have concluded that the time is right to begin planning a slavery
museum that would be the largest of its kind in the United States.


New York Times 8/14/01
Marketing tool may be right mix for stores
http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_0-1007-200-6863528.html?searchpv=cnet

by Rachel Konrad
CNET News.com
Picture this: You splurge on a purse at your local Neiman Marcus
(news/quote).
Later, while surfing at NeimanMarcus.com, you receive a promotional coupon
good for 30 percent off matching shoes.


New York Times 8/14/01
Phone records link suspects in day laborer beating case
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/nyregion/14MIGR.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Elissa Gootman
Riverhead, N.Y., Aug 13 -- Records of a predawn telephone call that the
authorities say link one man charged with attacking two Mexican day laborers
last fall to another suspect were introduced into evidence today in the
trial of one defendant.


New York Times 8/13/01
Slave traders in Yale's past fuel debate on restitution
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/13/nyregion/13YALE.html?searchpv=day01

by Kate Zernike
As it marks its 300th anniversary, Yale University is celebrating what it
calls its "long history of activism in the face of slavery" - the
abolitionist faculty members who befriended the slaves on the ship Amistad
in 1839, and today, the world's first center for the study of slavery.


New York Times 8/14/01
Wrestling with the legacy of slavery at Yale
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/opinion/14TUE4.html?searchpv=nytToday

by Brent Staples
Americans tend to believe that slavery was peculiar to the South and that
the North, particularly the New England states, was "free." This misbelief
stems in part from mistaken ideas about the Civil War - the central metaphor
of American popular history - and partly from the gargantuan reputations
left by Northeastern abolitionists like Horace Greeley, William Lloyd
Garrison and Harriet Beecher Stowe.


New York Times 8/14/01
Sports agent files federal lawsuit
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/sports/AP-Agent-Lawsuit.html?searchpv=aponli
ne

AP
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Sports agent Leigh Steinberg accused his former partner
of conspiring to steal his clients and preparing a blackmail scheme in a
lawsuit filed in federal court Monday.


New York Times 8/14/01
'Web Bugs' are tracking use of Internet
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/14/technology/ebusiness/14WEB.html

by John Schwartz
Many people who have personal Web pages are unknowingly tracking people who
visit and sending the information to third parties, according to a new
report.
The report - which will be released today by Cyveillance, which tracks
Internet sites for corporate clients - says that the use of an Internet
monitoring technology popularly known as "Web bugs" has exploded on personal
Web pages - especially those created free through online companies like
America Online and Geocities, a company owned by Yahoo (news/quote).


Polk County Democrat 8/13/01
Court house nooks and crannies all filled
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2214505&BRD=1915&PAG=461&dept_id=1
36668&rfi=6

by S.L. Frisbie IV
Before long, all of the nooks and all but one of the crannies in the Polk
County court house will be filled in for office space.
Three of the four exterior balconies on the fourth floor have been or will
be converted to offices, as will the tenth floor and the basement.


The Times 8/15/01
'Plot to impose English' angers Euro-partners
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/0,,3-2001282458,00.html

by Adam Sage in Paris
THE French and German Governments have protested against plans by Neil
Kinnock, the European Commission Vice-President, to reduce bureaucracy,
which they say would turn Europe into an English-speaking zone.
Paris and Berlin say that their mother tongues would be marginalised by
proposals designed to reduce the number of documents submitted for
translation in Brussels - at present 1.1 million a year.



Sacramento Bee 8/14/01
Opinions: Adding insult to injury
http://www.nandotimes.com/opinions/story/60861p-879728c.html

by Marjie Lundstrom
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - There are lots of explanations and plenty of reasons
for what happened to the Steele family of Ohio in their brush with
California's state and local governments.
To hear all the parties along the way explain their version of events, the
story almost makes sense.


Washington Post 8/14/01
High-Tech FBI tactics raise privacy questions
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A55606-2001Aug9.html

by Jonathan Krim
When federal prosecutors set their sights on Nicodemo Scarfo, son of reputed
Philadelphia mob boss Nicodemo "Little Nicky" Scarfo, for alleged illegal
gambling and loan-sharking, they had to employ some sophisticated high-tech
techniques.


Washington Post 8/14/01
Editorial: Open the Archives
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A7018-2001Aug13.html

THE EFFORT by Jews and Catholics to reconcile conflicting views of Pope Pius
XII has been an uphill and touchy task from the beginning. Detractors of the
Nazi-era pope say he failed to voice strong moral condemnation of the murder
of Europe's Jews; admirers, including the current pope, want him canonized
as a saint, and the Vatican has started that process.




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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