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RAIN 9/05 Part 1: IRM, ONLINE PRIVACY, MEMORY COST



There are 16 stories in this posting.

Contra Costa Times 8/31/01
Air district paper shredding halts
http://www.contracostatimes.com/news/bayarea/stories/newshort_20010831.htm

SAN FRANCISCO -- A state judge has barred the Bay Area's air pollution cops
from destroying records on how they enforce air quality laws.
In an unusual ruling against a public agency on Wednesday, San Francisco
Superior Court Judge David Garcia issued a temporary restraining order to
block records destruction by the Bay Area Air Quality Management District.


Business Week 9/4/01
Spinning paper into gold at Iron Mountain
http://www.businessweek.com/bwdaily/dnflash/sep2001/nf2001094_700.htm

by Gene Marcial
With the paperless office still a fantasy, this documents-storage company is
growing smartly, and so is its stock.
Big Board-listed Iron Mountain (IRM ) has nothing to do with either metals
or mountains. The company thrives on paper -- managing its storage, that is.
Iron Mountain is the world's largest manager of paper records, servicing
some 125,000 customer accounts in 77 U.S. markets and more than 40 markets
abroad.



Washington Post 9/3/01
A tempting site for spies' eyes
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A33605-2001Sep2.html

by Walter Pincus
Former Air Force Master Sgt. Brian P. Regan's alleged attempt to sell to
Libya documents he downloaded from Intelink, the U.S. intelligence
community's classified Web site, has reopened long-standing doubts about
putting all that secret data in one place.



Washington Post 9/4/01
Audit estimates $31 million paid to dead beneficiaries
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A37345-2001Sep3.html

by David Pace
AP
Social Security paid $31 million through the end of last year to deceased
beneficiaries who were listed as dead in the agency's own electronic files,
auditors estimate.



Los Angeles Times 9/4/01
Bank freezes action at massive film vault
http://www.latimes.com/business/la-000071279sep03.story

by Meg James
Reels of American pop culture--old Abbott & Costello and James Bond movies,
"Chitty Chitty Bang Bang," even the original copy of the 1968 horror classic
"Night of the Living Dead"--are stranded in a Pennsylvania laboratory that
was suddenly shuttered last month when a Canadian bank foreclosed on the
property.



Corpus Christi Caller-Times 9/3/01
Del Mar and A&M-K get grants
http://www.caller.com/2001/september/03/today/localnew/10397.html

by Neal Falgoust
Two colleges have received grants totaling $7,400 from the National
Endowment for the Humanities to preserve pieces of local history.
Del Mar College got $4,900 to begin an assessment of a huge collection of
jazz records that it has held for the past 25 years. Texas A&M
University-Kingsville received $2,500 to conduct a series of seminars for
local history buffs to learn about preservation techniques.



CNET.com 9/4/01
Digimarc files third patent lawsuit
http://news.cnet.com/news/0-1005-200-7053326.html?tag=cdshrt

by Gwendolyn Mariano
Digimarc, which specializes in the authentication of digital or analog
documents, says it has filed its third patent-infringement lawsuit against
Verance, a developer of digital audio watermarking technology. A digital
watermark places a unique bit of code into a sound or image file to make the
file difficult to copy or play without permission from copyright holders.



DMNews 9/4/01
List exec doubt privacy legislation will pass
http://www.dmnews.com/cgi-bin/artprevbot.cgi?article_id=16828

by Kristen Bremner
Though far-reaching federal privacy legislation could have a huge effect on
the traditional list business, several list professionals are confident that
such legislation won't be enacted this year, or perhaps ever.
"Obviously, everything would be dependent on how the legislation was
worded," said Patrick O'Hara, CEO/CIO of The List Group Inc., Boulder, CO.
"Assuming it was worded in the worst-case scenario, where you would actually
have to grant permission before anyone could send you any piece of direct
mail, I think that would be catastrophic."



Law.com 8/28/01
E-legal: what , no privacy in phone calls?
http://www.law.com/cgi-bin/gx.cgi/AppLogic+FTContentServer?pagename=law/View
&c=Article&cid=ZZZIHKITWQC&live=true&cst=1&pc=0&pa=0&s=News&ExpIgnore=true&s
howsummary=0

by Eric J. Sinrod
At a time when it seems that privacy rights cannot be eroded any further,
the Pennsylvania Supreme Court has ruled in a split decision that people do
not have a reasonable expectation of privacy in their telephone
conversations. In Commonwealth v. Rekasie, the court ruled that law
enforcement officials in Pennsylvania can initiate a telephone call to an
individual in his home and record that conversation without a determination
in advance that there is probable cause of criminal activity.




Washington Times 9/4/01
E-mailed love letters could come back to haunt sender
http://www.washtimes.com/national/20010904-9510916.htm

by Mike Causey
Once upon a time, people wrote love letters in the sand. (I can hear that
wonderful Pat Boone record across the years). But that was then. This is
now.
Today we profess our love (among other things) via e-mail. Often at the
office, or using our office PC to send an e-mail through our personal home
account. It's faster. Also not real bright.




New York times 9/4/01
Giving the Web a memory cost its users privacy
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/technology/04COOK.html

by John Schwartz
One day in June 1994, Lou Montulli sat down at his keyboard to fix one of
the biggest problems facing the fledgling World Wide Web - and, as so often
happens in the world of technology, he created another one.
At that moment in Web history, every visit to a site was like the first,
with no automatic way to record that a visitor had dropped by before. Any
commercial transaction would have to be handled from start to finish in one
visit, and visitors would have to work their way through the same clicks
again and again; it was like visiting a store where the shopkeeper had
amnesia.



Greenwich Time 9/4/01
Historic change in works in archivist
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/greenwich/2001-09-04/article6.shtml

by Martin B. Cassidy
After a decade of cataloging and organizing the town's historical materials
as an archivist, Susan Richardson will now work to protect and raise
awareness of the town's past.
Richardson will undertake a new role as preservation coordinator for the
Historical Society of the Town of Greenwich, researching historically
significant buildings and applying for state and national recognition of
buildings she deems viable. She also will encourage preservation-minded
residents to form local historic districts.



Insight Magazine 9/24/01
Army of Bias?
http://www.insightmag.com/archive/200109244.shtml

by Timothy W. Maier
The U.S. Army National Ground Intelligence Center has been rocked by charges
of racial discrimination and illegal electronic surveillance of
whistle-blowers.
It started as a discrimination complaint to the Equal Employment Opportunity
Commission (EEOC) filed by intelligence analyst Alice Lewis against the U.S.
Army National Ground Intelligence Center (NGIC) outside Charlottesville, Va.
It since has turned into a national-security nightmare with charges of
illegal computer monitoring, obstruction of justice and allegedly deliberate
abuse of federal work rules and civil-rights laws.


Washington Post 8/30/01
Keep digital copyright law intact, agency says
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A16744-2001Aug29.html

by Arianna Eunjung Cha
The U.S. Copyright Office said yesterday that it sees no need to
dramatically overhaul a controversial law intended to establish legal
guidelines for how digital books, music and other materials should be lent,
sold, given away or otherwise distributed.
In a report mandated by Congress, government lawyers said it is too early to
assess whether the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 is a success or
a failure. The law was designed to protect copyright holders in an age when
billions of copies of electronic works can be made and sent around the world
almost instantaneously. But a growing group of critics has contended that it
hinders innovation and takes away basic rights that users of copyrighted
materials have had for centuries.



Precison Marketing 8/31/01
US companies continue to fail European personal data privacy requirements
http://www.mad.co.uk/story/story.asp?id=PM200108310004

by Ryan Borrof
A new report claims US companies still aren't doing enough to safeguard
individuals' electronically stored personal data, despite joint European and
US 'Safe Harbour' guidelines.
The report, by professional services firm Andersen claims many US
multinationals "fail to reach minimum security standards" for safeguarding
consumers' personal data.



Gainesville Sun 9/4/01
Med school addresses allegations in report
http://www.gainesvillesun.com/articles/2001-09-04b.shtml

by Jon Rabiroff
The dean of the University of Florida medical school said measures are under
way to address newly revealed allegations of fraud at the school's teaching
hospital and supervisors harassing doctors who complained about the
practice.
Dean Ken Berns said the university agreed to upgrade its internal auditing
procedures and educate its staffers on proper billing as part of a
settlement reached last month in an ongoing investigation into Medicare
overbilling at Shands at the University of Florida.





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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