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RAIN 11/16 Part 1: 750K , biometrics, snailmail



There are 19 stories in this posting.

Ames Tribune 11/13/01
Newspaper group targets foundation records
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2633251&BRD=2035&PAG=461&dept_id=238101&rfi=6

by Liz Allen
An association representing Iowa's major newspapers could push for the three state universities' foundations to open their private fund-raising records.


Wired 11/15/01
Army Intranet: World's largest
http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,48183,00.html

by Louise Knapp
The United States Army has flicked the switch on the world's largest Intranet -- a giant computer network that will connect more than 1 million soldiers, support personnel and veterans all over the globe.


Richmond Times Dispatch 11/15/01
Biometrics versus privacy
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGB557LQ1UC.html

by Jill Kester Locantore
Security concerns raised by the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11 have dramatically increased interest in biometrics.
Boston's Logan Airport, for instance, is installing face recognition devices that scan crowds for known or suspected terrorists. National ID cards that store digitized fingerprints have been proposed, as have retinal or iris scans to identify airplane passengers.


El Paso Times 11/15/01
Strelzin in contempt for not turning over financial records
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20011115-153171.shtml

by Jennifer Shubinski
Talk show host Paul Strelzin has another legal problem since he failed to appear for a court hearing, causing a judge to hold him in contempt of court for not handing over financial documents.


El Paso Times 11/15/01
YISD won't investigate removal of documents
http://www.borderlandnews.com/stories/borderland/20011115-153169.shtml

by Gustavo Reveles Acosta
The Ysleta Independent School District board of trustees voted Wednesday not to begin its own investigation into the removal of official documents from the central office because it would interfere with the ongoing investigation that the police department is conducting.


New York Times 11/15/01
Editorial: Cheating History
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/opinion/15THU4.html

The records a president amasses during his tenure do not become his personal property when he leaves office. As the Presidential Records Act of 1978 makes clear, this treasure trove of historical material belongs to the American people.


East Bay Newspapers 11/14/01
Rhode Island Internet site meant to untangle bureaucracy
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=2640405&BRD=1474&PAG=461&dept_id=84378&rfi=6

PROVIDENCE - The state of Rhode Island will soon launch an Internet site to deliver services such as car registrations and driver's license records, plus easy access to other government information.


Europemedia.net 11/14/01
Holding customer locator records infringes upon mobile user privacy
http://www.europemedia.net/shownews.asp?ArticleID=6674

Irish mobile phone user privacy could be infringed upon via 'customer locator records' currently being held by mobile telecoms Eircell and Digifone.



New York Times 11/15/01
Ex-executive of Christie's tells of collusion scheme
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/15/arts/15SOTH.html

by Ralph Blumenthal
A onetime printer who aspired to the heights of London society as chief executive of Christie's auction house testified yesterday that the former chairmen of Christie's and Sotheby's masterminded a scheme to squelch competition and boost profits and deployed him and a high-level Sotheby's deputy to carry it out.


New York Times 11/12/01
Faster, safer snail-mail in India
http://www.nytimes.com/2001/11/12/technology/12HAND.html

by Saritha Rai
Even as Americans, newly wary of paper mail, are embracing e-mail with greater gusto, people in places like India are turning e-mail into paper.


Saint Petersburg Times 11/15/01
Genealogy: Online and around town, volunteering helps
http://www.sptimes.com/News/111501/Floridian/Genealogy__Online_and.shtml

by Donna Murray Allen
To paraphrase President John Kennedy: "Ask not what genealogy can do for you. Ask what you can do for genealogy." I doubt Kennedy would mind me borrowing his famous quote. He actively promoted volunteerism.
Although transcribing family records, abstracting wills and creating indexes to compiled records may not compare with a stint in the Peace Corps, such activities go a long way toward helping us preserve and share our history.


Associated Press 11/14/01
School district told to release bus drivers' names, records
http://www.freedomforum.org/templates/document.asp?documentID=15360

MADISON, Wis. - The Milwaukee Public School district should release information about its bus drivers to a reporter despite the objections of bus companies that employ those drivers, a state appeals court ruled yesterday.


Herald Journal 11/10/01
USU-LDS board to review collection
http://news.mywebpal.com/news_tool_v2.cfm?pnpid=672&show=archivedetails&ArchiveID=402317&om=1

by Arrin Brunson
Utah State University President Kermit L. Hall and LDS Church President Gordon B. Hinkley are the leading authorities in an ownership dispute that has brought them together.
Nearly one month after the Leonard J. Arrington Collection was opened to the public at Utah State University, representatives from The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints have agreed to participate in a review process with school officials.



Houston Chronicle 11/14/01
South Texas Project selects IT Group to provide enterprise workflow solution
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/prn/texas/1132390

Business Wire
PALACIOS, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2001--I T Group Inc. (www.it-group.com), a document management consulting company, today announced an agreement to implement an eProcess workflow solution for the South Texas Project Nuclear Operating Company, which provides electricity to more than one million households in south central Texas. The new workflow system will help to increase efficiency for required plant procedures and contribute to overall productivity and cost savings.


Richmond Times Dispatch 11/15/01
I.D., Please
http://www.timesdispatch.com/frontpage/MGBJ8LLQ1UC.html

by Jill Kester Locantore
Imagine you are about to embark on a vacation to Europe. You walk out to the garage and talk to your car. Recognizing your voice, the car doors unlock.
On the way to the airport, you stop at an ATM. A camera mounted on the bank machine looks you in the eye, recognizes the pattern of specks on your iris and allows you to withdraw cash from your account.


Wired 11/12/01
It's all Arabic-English to him
http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,48260,00.html

by Joanna Glasner
Ask most people what they think of free Internet translation services, and their first associations are of bizarre sentence structures and amusing syntactic snafus.
But where others see garbled grammar, Fahad Al Sharekh sees a new era of global communication.


Florida Times-Union 11/15/01
Lawmakers seek to close public utility records
http://www.jacksonville.com/tu-online/stories/111501/met_7831435.html

by Jim Saunders
TALLAHASSEE -- When the Times-Union requested public records from the JEA this summer, it found an eye-opening story: Some homeowners had used millions of gallons of water to maintain their lawns while Jacksonville suffered from a drought.


St. Petersburg Times 11/15/01
Sniff out records, but not by name
http://www.sptimes.com/News/111501/NorthPinellas/Sniff_out_records__bu.shtml

by Lisa Greene
Pinellas County tax records can no longer be searched by the property owner's name on the county Web site because of security concerns.


Los Angeles Times 11/12/01
Paper trail begins on racial profiling
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-000090455nov12.story

by Jill Leovy
Beginning this month, there will be new ammunition in the long-running battle between Los Angeles police and civil libertarians over racial profiling: 750,000 paper slips.
That's roughly how many forms LAPD officers are expected to file in the coming year as they begin the first phase of a new data-collection effort to track racial profiling, as required under the terms of a federal consent decree.


Peter A. Kurilecz CRM, CA
pakurilecz@aol.com
Richmond, Va