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RAIN: Holiday Update 12/21/01



There are 9 stories in this posting


The Indianapolis Star 12/21/01
424 missing court files stump officials
http://www.starnews.com/article.php?files21.html

by Douglas Walker
Muncie Star Press
MUNCIE -- Delaware County officials are investigating the disappearance of 424 files of misdemeanor cases filed in Delaware Superior Court 3 in late 1987, and officials are trading accusations on who's to blame.
Delaware County Clerk Karen Wenger and her office's records administrator, Richard Stahl, maintained the files disappeared while in the possession of the county's micrographics department, which until recently microfilmed court records.



Computerworld 12/21/01
Startup has designs on Web documents
http://www.computerworld.com.au/IDG2.NSF/cw_AllHeadlines/B86DBA902A16A2E2CA256B1E0074337E?OpenDocument

by Linda Rosencrance
Since 1996, the staff at Case Western Reserve University's School of Medicine had been looking for a tool that would let faculty and students mark up, in real time, Web-based lecture notes that had been converted to HTML pages.



Daily Yomiuri 12/21/01
SESC: Footwork faked books
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20011221wo31.htm

The Securities and Exchange Surveillance Commission (SESC) filed charges on Thursday against Footwork Express Co. over allegations that it violated the Securities and Exchange Law by creating false account records during the three-year period that ended in December 1999, according to sources.



Washington Post 12/21/01
Fraction of Reagan's confidential papers approved for release
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A9666-2001Dec20.html

by George Lardner Jr
The White House announced yesterday that it will make public next month some 8,000 pages of former president Ronald Reagan's confidential papers under the provisions of a hotly debated executive order that President Bush issued last month.
White House counsel Alberto R. Gonzales said the action shows "President Bush intended the order to facilitate the expeditious release of the records."



Houston Chronicle 12/21/01
Perry drops bid to shield appointees' data
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/story.hts/metropolitan/1182114

by Polly Ross Hughes
AUSTIN -- Gov. Rick Perry decided late Thursday to drop an unusual lawsuit against fellow Republican Attorney General John Cornyn to keep information about his appointees private and out of the hands of a political rival.



National Post 12/21/01
Dead children's names used for fake Ids: police
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?f=/stories/20011220/921811.html

by Adrian Humphreys
An Edmonton man is accused of using the names of dead children to create hundreds of false Canadian identity papers, including passports that have been seized from travellers in Europe.
The elaborate scheme involved researching names -- from tombstones, newspaper obituaries, genealogical records and other sources -- to find more than 1,800 young people who were born in one province and died in another, police said.



New Zealand Herald 12/21/01
Army chief digs in against MPs' probe
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=383700&thesection=news&thesubsection=general

by Francesca Mold
Army chief Maurice Dodson says his reasons for looking into MP Ron Mark's private military files were innocent and lawful.
Major-General Dodson yesterday spoke about the accusations of snooping for the first time before a committee of MPs.



The Australian 12/21/01
Editorial: New privacy laws: big cost, small benefit
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3473083%5E7583,00.html

THE Howard Government's approach to new privacy legislation, which takes effect today, has been heavy-handed and inept. The legislation that extends privacy provisions to the private sector pleases nobody - not business, not consumers, not privacy advocates - because it is overly complex, costly to administer, unenforceable and has too many loopholes.



The Australian 12/21/01
Privacy laws for private sector
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/common/story_page/0,5744,3473649%5E2702,00.html

by Benjamin Haslem and Selina Mitchell
FROM today, Australians will be able to demand access to their medical records, tell direct marketing companies to stop sending them junk mail and check the accuracy of information used to approve a home loan.
The new freedoms are part of sweeping changes to laws affecting how private businesses handle personal information, from someone's name and address to their medical history or sexuality.





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