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RAIN 9/11: Privacy myth?, White House CIO, RosettaNet



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The Daily News 9/06/01
Editorial: Is turf war necessary?
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=1282&dept_id=182124&newsid=2321047&PA
G=461&rfi=9

A TURF WAR has erupted between some Westmoreland County row officers and a
bipartisan majority on the board of commissioners
At least four row officers are embroiled in the dispute over funding for
improvements to the county's record-keeping process.
And in at least one case, it sounds like Round 2 of another feud.
"I have to protect the integrity of my office," Recorder of Deeds Tom Murphy
said as he seeks a judgment from the county Common Pleas Court about Act 8
of 1998, which creates a special fund for the recorder of deeds, as well as
a records improvement fund.


Putnam County News and Recorder 9/5/01
Putnam county receives two grants for archives
http://www.pcnr.com/news/2001/0905/Front_Page/045.html

"Putnam County Government has just received two grants from the New York
State Archives and Records Administration. One grant in the amount of
$60,000 to complete a conversion of County Clerk Land Records from microfilm
to electronic images. The second grant received was $40,000 to enhance our
Geographical Information Systems Department," said Deputy County Clerk,
Dennis Sant.



Washington Business Journal 9/7/01
When is a Web site a financial institution?
http://washington.bcentral.com/washington/stories/2001/09/10/editorial3.html

by Adrienne Lavalle
Although financial Web sites probably do not consider themselves financial
institutions, they may be subject to regulation under legislation passed by
Congress and signed by former President Clinton in 1999. Known as the
Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, this law overhauled the U.S. financial services
industry and opened up competition in banking, insurance and securities
among the many different financial institutions throughout the country. It
is very complex, but virtually everyone agrees it is a necessary law that
updates finance in a modern world.



Orlando Sentinel 9/10/01
Judicial leaders mull Web monitoring
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/technology/sns-ap-judges-privacy0910sep10.sto
ry?coll=sns%2Dtechnology%2Dheadlines

by Gina Holland
AP
WASHINGTON -- A panel will decide Tuesday how closely to monitor the use of
computers by federal judges and their staffs. Choices range from a proposal
for extensive monitoring to no monitoring whatsoever, the demand of some
judges.
Some privacy advocates had said an original proposal for close checks would
have opened the 30,000 court employees, among them about 1,800 judges, to
extensive illegal monitoring.



Cincinnati Enquirer 9/08/01
History comes alive on Web site
http://enquirer.com/editions/2001/09/08/loc_mcnutt_warren_county.html

by Randy McNutt
The past of Butler, Warren and other Southwest Ohio counties is alive -
virtually.
It comes not through a time machine but the Ohio Historical Society's Web
site, www.ohiohistory.org.
Last month the society received the Society of American Archivists 2001
Distinguished Service Award for its efforts to put so many things on-line,
including old photographs and entire exhibits.



Salon 8/31/01
Copywrong?
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/31/dmca_report/index.html

by Damien Cave
Aug. 31, 2001 | For computer geeks and civil libertarians, the Digital
Millennium Copyright Act is one of the most despised laws of the land. But
the 3-year-old law passed a major test on Wednesday: To the dismay of
critics, the U.S. Copyright Office evaluated the effects of the DMCA without
calling for a complete revision.



Salon 8/23/01
Fingered by the movie cops
http://www.salon.com/tech/feature/2001/08/23/pirate/index.html

by Amita Guha
Aug. 23, 2001 | One recent Monday, my boyfriend and I returned home from a
long weekend away. As usual, one of the first things we did was check our
e-mail, only to discover, to our dismay, that Time-Warner Cable, our
Internet service provider, had cut off access to our account sometime around
midnight the Friday before. My boyfriend, a software engineer who takes his
e-mail seriously, called the tech support line and was transferred to
several people that evening, none of whom could help. All he could find out
was that the account had been suspended for "security reasons."




Northeast Mississippi Daily Journal 9/9/01
Preserving Memories
http://www.djournal.com/djournal/site/articles/news/620849.htm

by Michaela Gibson Morris
Baby steps, the first day of school, slumber parties, football games,
practical jokes, graduations, family reunions and weddings all seem to get
immortalized on film.
But after the film returns from the photo-mat, many of those memories get
shuffled into shoe boxes and tucked away in drawers.



San Jose Mercury News 9/8/01
Anxiety over racist resolution proves a false alarm in Sunnyvale
http://www0.mercurycenter.com/premium/local/docs/sunnyvale08.htm

by Cecilia Kang
Sunnyvale officials recently stumbled upon an unpleasant surprise: a city
resolution calling for all Japanese-Americans to be banished from
California.
The World War II relic came to light after an odd sequence of events
involving cyber-activism, a fumbled search for city documents and rummaging
through trash.



AMNews 9/17/01
Get on target: Feds should speed action on HIPAA
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/amn_01/edsa0917.htm

Confronting the regulations created by the Health Insurance Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996 is often likened to the Year 2000 computer
changeover. It is a complex, often costly undertaking and one certainly not
to be ignored by anyone with an interest in staying in business after HIPAA
deadlines take effect.
At least the computer programmers working on the Y2K problem had the
advantage of being absolutely certain of the target they were trying to hit.
Not so with HIPAA.



Bizjournals.com 9/7/01
Are you in control of your corporate email?
http://bizjournals.bcentral.com/extraedge/consultants/cybersense/2001/09/10/
column261.html

by Chaim Yudkowsky
The message read: "This is a test message from the ORBZ service. We are
checking your mail server for open relay capabilities. Please see
http://orbz.org/ for more information." This message was waiting in my email
one recent morning and spooked me out. In the context of the panic about
virus attacks and email abuse, what did this mean?



Boston Globe 9/10/01
Report: Four city agencies targeted in corruption probe
http://www.boston.com/dailynews/252/region/Report_Four_city_agencies_targ:.s
html

AP
SPRINGFIELD, Mass. (AP) The Federal Bureau of Investigation has subpoenaed
four city agencies over the last two and a half weeks seeking hundreds of
thousands of documents in a corruption probe.
The FBI has demanded documents from the city License Commission for five
years worth of liquor license records, and has asked for documents from
three community development officials, the Springfield Union-News and Sunday
Republican reported, citing anonymous sources.



Christian Science Monitor 9/10/01
The myth of privacy invasion
http://www.csmonitor.com/2001/0910/p9s1-coop.html

by Amitai Etzioni
WASHINGTON - Members of Congress are returning to Capitol Hill, having
assessed what's on voters' minds. They may have found that privacy ranks
much lower among the public's concerns than the chattering classes report.
And for good reasons.
Commentators have kept up a drumbeat about ever-rising threats to privacy.
In Tampa, Fla., the police are reported to feed mug shots of crime suspects
into computers connected to cameras that scan the faces of people in the
street. Dick Armey, House majority leader, railed against cameras introduced
to catch red-light runners. New police flashlights measure the alcohol on
one's breath. New software from Microsoft and AOL is said to pose new
threats to privacy.




Dayton Daily News 9/10/01
Audit reveals shoddy records
http://www.activedayton.com/partners/ddn/epaper/editions/today/metro_9.html

CLEVELAND--A little-noticed part of a state audit critical of Cleveland city
finances reported that $16,000 in cash, plus checks, and an array of
oddities were found in a city jail safe.
"I don't think anybody had a clue that it was as bad as it is," said city
Councilman Bill Patmon, head of the Finance Committee which oversees
municipal spending.



Federal Computer Week 9/7/01
Address change goes electronic
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0903/web-postal-09-07-01.asp

by William Matthews
The Postal Service is ready to use the Internet to make it easier for postal
customers to change their addresses, but a more ambitious change-of-address
scheme by the federal CIO Council remains on the drawing board.
MoversGuide is already online, although the Postal Service doesn't plan a
formal debut for the service until later this month.



Federal Computer Week 9/7/01
FBI keeping key logger secret
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0903/web-fbi-09-07-01.asp

by William Matthews
The FBI says its controversial "key logger system" is classified as
"secret," thus the law enforcement agency will not disclose how it works
despite a judge's order to do so.
In an affidavit filed Sept. 6 with the U.S. District Court of New Jersey,
the FBI said revealing details about the key logger "could reasonably be
expected to cause serious damage to the national security of the United
States."




Federal Computer Week 9/7/01
Telework bill in the works
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0903/web-work-09-07-01.asp

by Colleen O'Hara
Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) plans to introduce legislation this month that would
make it easier for federal contractors to allow more employees to telework.
Davis is planning to include language in the Services Acquisition Reform Act
that would prohibit government contracting officers from arbitrarily
requiring contractors to be on-site, according to Davis spokesman David
Marin.




Federal Computer Week 9/7/01
White House hires a CIO
http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2001/0903/web-cio-09-07-01.asp

by Diane Frank
For the first time, the White House has a chief information officer to
coordinate all of the technology and e-government work in the Executive
Office of the President.
As CIO, Tim Campen said he is responsible for supporting network, desktop,
mobile and Internet needs across the White House's multiple offices and
councils. These include the Office of Management and Budget, the National
Security Council, and the Office of Science and Technology Policy.



The Denver Business Journal 9/10/01
Group hunting for holes
http://denver.bcentral.com/denver/stories/2001/09/10/story7.html

by Lyn Berry-Helmlinger
If you think the private information about you that's stored in public
records' databases is safe from opportunistic eyes and greedy fingers, think
again.
The Privacy Foundation at the University of Denver has identified areas of
overlap in databases that make personal information easily accessible and
therefore quite vulnerable.



Federal Computer Week 9/7/01
Montana welcomes first CIO
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/0903/web-mont-09-07-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
A telecommunications and technology manager with a North Dakota-based power
company has been tapped as Montana's first chief information officer.
Brian Wolf, 39, who has worked for Basin Electric Power Cooperative for the
past 19 years, will assume his new post in October. The position was created
through state legislation and signed into law by Gov. Judy Martz in April.



Federal Computer Week 9/6/01
Online instead of on phone
http://www.fcw.com/geb/articles/2001/0903/web-tenn-09-06-01.asp

by Dibya Sarkar
Doctors and hospitals are using a Web-based service to check on patient
eligibility in Tennessee's managed health care program, greatly reducing
telephone inquiries.


Richmond Times Dispatch 9/10/01
Reynolds' papers to historical society
Alcoa also donating for Reynolds Center
http://www.timesdispatch.com/vametro/MGBNA3RJFRC.html

by Janet Caggiano
Alcoa Inc., the aluminum giant that bought Reynolds Metals Co. last year, is
donating Reynolds' corporate papers to the Virginia Historical Society.
In addition, $1.5 million will be donated to the historical society to help
establish the Reynolds Center for Virginia Business History, a project still
in the planning stages. The Richard S. Reynolds Foundation is contributing
$1 million for the center; Alcoa will give $500,000.



San Francisco Chronicle 9/10/01
Report questions Web privacy rules
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/06
/BU160123.DTL&type=tech

by Carrie Kirby
A San Francisco think tank says that Internet privacy legislation being
considered by Congress may do more harm than good.
The conservative Pacific Research Institute's report, released yesterday,
warns that strict privacy rules could limit consumer choices by hamstringing
the development of new technologies and driving up prices.




San Francisco Chronicle 9/6/01
CMA seeks shield of doctor group files
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2001/09/06
/BU18418.DTL&type=business

by Victoria Colliver
The California Medical Association filed a request for a temporary
restraining order yesterday to block the state from releasing the financial
records of California's physicians groups.
After a number of high-profile medical group bankruptcies, the more than 200
groups were required for the first time this year to submit their financial
data to the state Department of Managed Health Care, which regulates health
maintenance organizations.




Sun-Sentinel 9/10/01
Bogus e-mail on credit data release creates stir
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybinfo10sep10.story?coll=sfla
%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines

by Eileen Alt Powell
AP
NEW YORK · There's a lot of useful information for consumers on the
Internet. There's also a lot of misinformation.
Take the case of an e-mail cascaded across the nation with a "warning" that
credit bureaus would be releasing consumers' personal information "to anyone
who requests it" unless consumers call a toll free number and opt out.




Abilene Reporter-News 9/10/01
Ballots destroyed while request to examine them was pending
http://www.reporternews.com/2001/texas/ballot0910.html

AP
HOUSTON (AP) - The shredding of more than 2,500 ballots from a Crockett city
election earlier this year has prompted a Houston County official to ask for
an investigation.
A group of Crockett residents had submitted an open records request to
Crockett City Secretary Betty Gilbert to examine everything connected to the
May 5 city election from the ballots to the ballot boxes and locks.




VNUNET.com 9/10/01
RosettaNet gets the routing message
http://webserv.vnunet.com/News/1125312

by John Geralds in Silicon Valley
RosettaNet, the industry body formed to draft a working language for
web-based business transactions, has unveiled a framework, which it claims
will enable better routing of business messages between systems.
With RosettaNet Implementation Framework (RNIF) 2.0, companies will be able
to exchange binary documents, such as PDF and GIF, along with their
XML-based messages. RNIF 2.0 also includes support for HTTP, HTTPS and SMTP
transfer protocols, as well as digital signatures.




Washington Post 9/10/01
White House seeks to restore its privileges
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1545-2001Sep9.html

by Ellen Nakashima and Dan Eggen
The Bush administration is mounting an aggressive campaign to restore the
White House's authority to keep internal information confidential, after the
principle of executive privilege took a beating during clashes between
President Bill Clinton and Republicans in Congress.






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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