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RAIN 9/06: Privacy, Internet Cookies, Pay Taxes online



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Anchorage Daily News 9/5/01
Summit to debate the future of privacy
http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/679146p-721401c.html

by Martha Bellisle
The state Department of Motor Vehicles keeps a computer file on you. So does
your health insurance company. And that online book store? They have your
number and may be selling it to other businesses.
Government agencies and private companies collect and can share all sorts of
information on individuals, a process that has become faster, easier and
more common thanks to the Internet. How it's done and whether it should be
regulated will be the topic of a three-day conference on privacy that begins
tonight in Anchorage.


Arizona Republic 8/30/01
ASU, UA revive Territorial Cup
http://www.azcentral.com/sports/azcolleges/asu/0830asutrophy.html

by Don Ketchum
You-know-where is freezing over right about now: Arizona State and Arizona
are working together.
How is this possible?
Both schools have their hands on something other than each other's throats.
It is the Territorial Cup.


Florida Times-Union 9/5/01
Augusta paper's online archives date back to 1918
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/090501/met_7198201.html

AP
AUGUSTA, Ga. -- The Augusta Chronicle launched a Web site yesterday that
ultimately will allow subscribers to search the newspaper's entire archives
-- every story, photograph and advertisement -- dating back to 1786.



Butler Eagle 9/4/01
Metcalfe targets gun files
http://www.butlereagle.com/Local_Headlines/0904-n01/0904-n01.html

Armed with an endorsement from the FBI, state Rep. Daryl Metcalfe hopes to
shoot down what he says is an illegal registry of the 250,000 handgun
purchases that occur each year in the state.



CIO 9/1/01
Case Files: Northrop-Grumman
Thanks for the Memories
http://www.cio.com/archive/090101/thanks.html

by Megan Santosus
IN THE LATE 1990S, the defense industry, no longer fighting the Cold War,
was consolidating and downsizing. At Northrop Grumman Air Combat Systems
(ACS), that presented more than just a short-term headache. As lead
contractor for the B-2 Stealth bomber, an aircraft that was nearing the end
of its production life, ACS was in danger of losing the expertise it needed
to support and maintain a complex machine that would be flying-carrying
precious lives and cargo-for years to come. So ACS instituted knowledge
management procedures designed to capture the so-called tacit knowledge, or
know-how and experience with the B-2, locked in its employees' heads.



CIO 9/1/01
Software Sales: The Selling Game
http://www.cio.com/archive/090101/selling.html

by Scott Berinato
DURHAM, N.C.-Edd Brown is having a few problems this morning. His assistant
is AWOL, which means no coffee, no hotel sticky pastries and no one to
register the baker's dozen of us who have signed up for Solution Selling,
the software sales boot camp being held at the local Marriott. Edd registers
the 16 male and eight female sales reps who have shown up, then stands in
the middle of the room. Edd, a former salesman himself, is running the boot
camp, and he begins with the basics: "Power buys from power." "Act like an
equal, and you'll be treated like one." "Sell to executives, not IT." This
is also known as the California Rule-get high, stay high. And don't control
the buyer, control the process.



Eastside Journal 9/4/01
Public records not always open
http://www.eastsidejournal.com/sited/story/html/65153

by Tom Wolfe
A few weeks ago, I wrote about a dust-up over public records we were having
with the city of Redmond.
It ended up being no big deal.
Redmond eventually released details of a legal settlement that we wanted to
review. We wrote a story about it. And everybody moved on.



Evansville Courier & Press 9/4/01
Editorial: Chilling Subpoena
http://www.courierpress.com/cgi-bin/view.cgi?200109/04+edchiling090401_news.
html+20010904

The Justice Department and FBI have gone into full no-comment mode on how an
extraordinary subpoena was approved for a reporter's home telephone records.

Perhaps that reticence is because the department seems to have ignored its
own Code of Federal Regulations in its haste to approve the subpoena and its
decision not to inform the reporter, John Solomon of The Associated Press,
in advance. If they had, Solomon and the AP could have challenged it in
court, and most probably would have won.




Florida Today 9/5/01
Editorial: Student privacy act shields kids from data collectors
http://www.floridatoday.com/news/editorial/stories/2001/sep/edit090501a.htm

Ads are nearly everywhere in the USA. It's the American way, and crucial to
the success of our free-enterprise system.
But there are places where advertising and other commercial activities
should be limited, and public schools rank high on that list.
Our society has a special responsibility to protect captive audiences of
children from being exploited by those selling products, services or causes.




Washington Post 9/5/01
Grassley seeks files on media subpoena
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A42470-2001Sep4.html

by Dan Eggen
Sen. Charles E. Grassley (R-Iowa) asked Attorney General John D. Ashcroft
yesterday to turn over documents related to a subpoena of a reporter's home
telephone records, saying the decision raises questions about the Justice
Department's view of press freedoms.



Detroit Free Press 9/5/01
Judge Oks transfer of confidential police files
http://www.freep.com/news/locway/cops5_20010905.htm

by David Ashenfelter
A Wayne County judge cleared the way Tuesday for the Detroit Police
Department to turn over confidential files today to the U.S. Justice
Department, which is investigating fatal police shootings, prisoner deaths
and alleged misconduct by officers.



Los Angeles Times 9/5/01
Single-number plan raises privacy fears
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/la-000071061sep02.story

by Jube Shiver Jr.
WASHINGTON -- A controversial technology under development by the
communications industry that links Internet addresses with phone numbers has
quietly picked up key government support as concern mounts among critics
that the technology will broadly undermine privacy.



Las Vegas Review-Journal 9/5/01
Commissioners disagree: Sheriff resists work card plan
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Sep-05-Wed-2001/news/16926917.html

by Frank Geary
Sheriff Jerry Keller won't go along with a plan prescribed Tuesday that
calls for shredding portions of outdated work card records now and others
later, but he wants casino workers who no longer need a work card to apply
to have their records erased.
The Clark County Commission said it wants the Metropolitan Police Department
to destroy all the work card records possible for thousands of casino
workers who no longer are required to carry a work card after the commission
in July repealed the long-standing requirement.



Las Vegas Review Journal 9/5/01
Former FBI analyst pleads guilty in theft of agency records
http://www.lvrj.com/lvrj_home/2001/Sep-05-Wed-2001/news/16926948.html

by Carri Geer Thevenot
A former FBI security analyst from Las Vegas pleaded guilty to four felonies
Tuesday and admitted his role in a scheme to sell the agency's investigative
records to outside sources, including criminal defendants.
James Hill, 51, entered the pleas before U.S. District Judge Denis Hurley in
Central Islip, N.Y.


New York Times 9/5/01
Editorial: An Assault on the Press
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/opinion/05WED3.html?pagewanted=all

The Justice Department's clumsy maneuver to obtain the home telephone
records of an Associated Press reporter betrays an alarming insensitivity
not only to free-press principles but to the department's own investigative
policies. The incident blots the reputation of Robert Mueller, the newly
installed director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, who approved the
subpoena earlier this year when he was acting deputy attorney general.




New York Times 9/5/01
As Big PC Brother watches, users encounter frustration
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/05COOK.html

by John Schwartz
The little silver bags contained a treat - and a taunt: "Do you know where
your cookies come from?"
The message was printed on tens of thousands of bags of free chocolate chip
cookies that were handed out in six cities last fall as part of an
advertising campaign from Earthlink, one of the biggest Internet service
providers.
The cookies that Earthlink referred to, of course, were not in the bag but
on people's PC's: "cookies" is the term for the small files that Web sites
place on visitors' computers to help recall where they have been on the
site, to determine which advertisements they see and more.



New York Times 9/5/01
How to say no to cookies
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/05COOK-SIDE.html

Most recent versions of the popular Internet browsers allow users to manage
their cookies within the program. Here are step-by-step instructions for
disabling or controlling cookies in recent versions of the two leading
Internet browsers for Windows-based and Macintosh computers.



New York Times 9/5/01
The Browser as a cookie-control key
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/05/technology/05BROW.html

by John Schwartz
To many privacy advocates, the most sensible place to offer privacy
protection is precisely where the online privacy furor began: the Internet
browser. Both Netscape and Microsoft (news/quote), which make the leading
browsers, designed their early versions to accept cookies by default,
requiring consumers who want more privacy to change software settings -
something most of them dread.



New York Times 9/4/01
The map that named America may now call it home
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/04/science/04MAP.html

by John Noble Wilford
The only known surviving copy of the first map to bear the name of America,
often called "the baptismal certificate of the New World," has found its way
to America from Germany as an acquisition of the Library of Congress.


Sakonnet Times 8/31/01
Council tapes will be saved and stored
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2298828&BRD=1475&PAG=461&dept_id=8
3924&rfi=6

Tiverton An experiment in open town government that began in May has
apparently captured the attention - and approval - of Tiverton residents
At last week's town council meeting, Councilor Paul Carroll asked if his
colleagues were interested in establishing a video library to house tapes of
past council meetings. The videotapings, which started during the council's
last meeting in May, allow residents to watch the council in action even if
they are unable to attend the meetings. Keeping past tapes would allow for
even more public access to town government, he said.



Birmingham Business Journal 8/29/01
SIRSI completes DRA acquisition
http://birmingham.bcentral.com/birmingham/stories/2001/08/27/daily23.html

SIRSI Holdings Corp. of Huntsville (http://www.sirsi.com) has completed its
acquisition of St. Louis-based Data Research Associates Inc.
(http://www.dra.com), fully two months after the initially announced end
date of June 28.



The Baytown Sun 9/5/01
TSP official removes documents from library
http://web.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?-datasource=baytown&-table=newsa&-keyf
ield=ID&-op=eq&ID=2640&-search

by M.A. Bengtson
Copies of the permit applications and draft permits for the proposed Cedar
Point Industrial Landfill have been removed from the Sterling Municipal
Library, according to Librarian Denise Fischer.
The landfill, which is in the permitting process with the Texas Natural
Resource Conservation Commission, is to be built by TSP Development Ltd., a
Kingwood-based company headed by Terry R. Parks.



The Oakland Press 9/4/01
Computer's sometimes open up Pandora's box for elected officials
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2307045&BRD=982&PAG=461&dept_id=12
9885&rfi=6

by Robert Carr
While using computers helps elected officials retain information and allows
for quicker exchanges of opinion through e-mail, stored data can also cause
big problems
For example, Hazel Park Mayor Ben Colley is under fire for allegedly having
sexually explicit content on his city-provided laptop computer.
The city was investigating ways to provide laptops to the five elected
officials. However, the city, strapped for cash, could afford only one, said
City Manager Joe Young.



The Oakland Press 8/31/01
Former IRS worker accused of altering tax returns
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2312048&BRD=982&PAG=461&dept_id=12
9879&rfi=6

by John Wisely
DETROIT - A former Internal Revenue Service worker is accused of altering
the tax returns of a Southfield minister who spurned her advances.
Earline Vaughn, 41, of Detroit inflated the income of Ronald Pritchett by a
total of $240,000 over three years to "intimidate, humiliate and terrorize
the plaintiff and jeopardize his personal effects, assets, etc.," according
to a federal lawsuit.
Vaughn met Pritchett at Word of Faith Church in Southfield, where he served
as a minister. She wanted to have a personal relationship with him, said
Pritchett's lawyer Brenda Sanders.



The Seattle Times 9/5/01
Bookstore wins battle over privacy
http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis/web/vortex/display?s
lug=book05m&date=20010905

by Mike Carter
A Seattle bookstore owner is claiming victory in a fight with the U.S.
Department of Justice over the release of customer information to a federal
grand jury investigating alleged wrongdoing by U.S. Sen. Robert Torricelli.



The Union Leader 9/5/01
Suicide pilot's wife fights unsealing record
http://www.theunionleader.com/articles_show.html?article=5060

by Kathryn Marchoki
AMHERST - The widow of the Amherst businessman who crashed his plane into
her palatial home last month said she wants to keep the reasons why she got
a restraining order against him private to protect their 8-year-old
daughter.



Toledo Blade 9/5/01
South Bass history to be on display, and for sale
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?Date=20010827&Category=NEWS
17&ArtNo=108270009&Ref=AR

PUT-IN-BAY - Steven Nemec is an avid collector of historic memorabilia and
artifacts.
He's also a savvy businessman.
He's hoping the combination will make him a little richer when he hosts an
auction on South Bass Island during the island's annual historic weekend on
Sept. 8.



UPI 9/5/01
Ford sues to recover internal documents
http://www.vny.com/cf/News/upidetail.cfm?QID=217715

DETROIT, Sept 5 (UPI) -- Ford Motor Co. Wednesday filed suit to force a
former human resources manager to return internal company documents he
claims show Ford discriminated against white male employees.




Wall Street Journal 9/5/01
Proposed Web site will allow individuals, businesses to pay taxes via the
Internet
http://interactive.wsj.com/articles/SB999641356295344560.htm

by Jacob M. Schlesinger
WASHINGTON -- The Treasury Department will unveil Thursday a system to let
companies and individuals file tax returns and pay taxes via the Internet,
Deputy Treasury Secretary Ken Dam said.
The system also will allow taxpayers to check the status of their taxes
anytime on the Web, and to have quarterly estimated taxes deducted
automatically from their bank accounts. The step attempts to move the
notoriously bureaucratic Internal Revenue Service closer to a long-sought
goal of becoming more like banks and credit-card companies in this regard.

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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