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RAIN 811 Weekly Update: Legal (18)



Computer World 7/26/02
FBI, Princeton to investigate breach of Yale admissions Web site
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,73065,00.html


Internet News 8/2/02
SEC to Wall Street: Don't Delete That E-Mail
By Brian Morrissey
With investigations increasingly the norm on Wall Street, the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) has moved to preserve the electronic paper trail at securities firms.
According to reports, SEC regulators want to fine six top investment houses a total of $10 million for failing to preserve e-mails for regulators investigating the firms' handling of initial public offerings and analysts' conflicts of interest during the go-go days of the stock market boom.
http://internetnews.com/bus-news/article.php/1438481


eyeforenergy 8/5/02
Cincinnati DPL Shareholders File Fraud Case Against the Officers and Directors of Dayton Power & Light
Restraining Order Issued to Prevent Document Destruction (8/5/2002)
http://www.eyeforenergy.com/content.asp?news=30694


ComputerWorld 8/5/02
Back to School
By FRANK HAYES
Let's say this upfront: That Princeton University admissions director was wrong. He was wrong to "test security" on a Yale University admissions Web site designed to let prospective Yalies find out whether they'd been accepted. He was wrong to repeatedly access would-be students' records using names, birth dates and Social Security numbers from Princeton's admissions files - including that of President Bush's niece, Lauren
[QuickLink: 31730]. He was wrong, yes - and criminally dumb on all counts.

Now let's move on to the other criminally dumb figure in this fiasco. That Yale Web site was designed by a self-promoting Yale sophomore who brags that he has worked for Microsoft since he was 14. He's the genius who decided that birth dates and Social Security numbers would make the perfect passwords because of their "personally identifiable nature," according to the Yale Daily News, the student newspaper that broke the story late last month before it was picked up by The Washington Post and the wire services.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/holes/story/0,10801,73200,00.html


Houston Chronicle 8/7/02
Ex-officer sentenced for filing false report
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1522738

Houston Chronicle 8/7/02
Officer's case is dismissed
Tampering charge was result of error
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/printstory.hts/metropolitan/1524551

Mainichi Daily News 8/6/02
Leaked docs on Suzuki case faxed to wrong number
Investigative documents containing testimonies of a man who bribed shamed legislator Muneo Suzuki were mistakenly faxed to a private company by a prosecution official, government lawyers admitted Tuesday.
The confidential documents were eventually published in news magazines because prosecution officials did not retrieve them from the wrong recipient.
http://mdn.mainichi.co.jp/news/20020806p2a00m0dm002001c.html


Ananova 8/6/02
Police seize documents in Legionnaires' outbreak
http://icbirmingham.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0200nationalnews/page.cfm?objectid=12094174&method=full


ITBusiness.ca 8/6/02
Meet Canada's first privacy plaintiff
8/6/2002 5:13:48 PM - Matthew Englander is using the Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act to take Telus to court -- for publishing his personal information in its White Pages. Experts who helped draft the legislation offer their take on a history-making case.
http://www.itbusiness.ca/index.asp?theaction=61&sid=49507



Washington Post 8/6/02
Records Checks Displace Workers
Social Security Letters Cost Immigrants Jobs
By Mary Beth Sheridan
Thousands of immigrants have been forced to leave their jobs in the last few months, the result of a little-publicized operation by the U.S. government to clean up Social Security records, immigration experts say.
Since early this year, the Social Security Administration has sent letters to more than
800,000 businesses -- about one in eight U.S. employers -- asking them to clear up cases in which their workers' names or Social Security numbers do not match the agency's files.
The letters cover about 7 million employees.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A47793-2002Aug5.html


The Age 8/7/02
Computers seized in raid on Nitschke's home
By Rod McGuirk
Detectives investigating the suicide of Gold Coast grandmother Nancy Crick today seized computers and records from euthanasia doctor Philip Nitschke's home outside Darwin.
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2002/08/06/1028157931636.html


Des Moines Register 8/7/02
Clinic can keep names confidential for now
Planned Parenthood spared penalty by Iowa high court
By STACI HUPP
The Iowa Supreme Court blocked an order Tuesday that would have forced Planned
Parenthood to give up the names by next week of about 1,000 women who took
pregnancy tests at a Storm Lake clinic.
It was Planned Parenthood's first victory in a month-old, unprecedented medical
privacy fight with Buena Vista County, where investigators are looking for the mother
of a newborn boy found dead at a recycling center May 30. The baby's body had gone
through a shredder.
http://www.dmregister.com/news/stories/c4788993/18900912.html


Mother Jones 8/7/02
Planned Parenthood's Iowa Predicament
Planned Parenthood officials in Iowa find themselves facing a wrenching decision between protecting the privacy of hundreds of women and helping authorities
investigating a infant's grisly death.
http://www.motherjones.com/web_exclusives/features/news/iowa_pphood.html


Christian Science Monitor 8/5/02
Give the Old Number a Rest
Controversy swirls around the issue of creating a national ID card for all Americans. But there should be no controversy about the need to rethink thoroughly what has become a de facto ID – the nine-digit Social Security number.
http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0805/p08s02-comv.html


GlobeTechnology.com 8/8/02
Internet overseer takes
wrong path on
accountability
MICHAEL GEIST
Thursday, August 8, 2002
In the age of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, it would be almost unthinkable to try to impede board disclosure and transparency. Almost.
Last week, a court case involving the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) -- the Internet administrative agency -- and Karl Auerbach, one of its most vocal directors, revealed that ICANN attempted to do just that when it established an unreasonable policy that placed conditions on board-ofdirector access to its own corporate records.
http://www.globetechnology.com/servlet/GAMArticleHTMLTemplate?tf=globetechnology/TGAM/NewsFullStory.html&cf=globetechnology/tech-config-neutral&slug=TWGEIS&date=20020808


Philadelphia Inquirer 8/8/02
Spammers struggling to annoy you
Bulk-e-mail firms' problems include vigilantes, filtering software, and some reluctant
ISPs.
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/3822316.htm


USA Today 8/9/02
Health privacy rules changes may be set
By Julie Appleby, USA TODAY
Long-anticipated and controversial changes to medical privacy rules — which critics
say fall short of protecting patients — might be finalized Friday by the Bush
administration.
The rules come amid growing concern about protecting sensitive medical information from employers, insurers and those who would use them to market products.
http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/health/2002-08-08-privacy_x.htm


Wall Street Journal 8/9/02
Germany's Terrorist Hunt Spurs Corporate Defiance
By IAN JOHNSON and DAVID CRAWFORD
Staff Reporters of THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
HAMBURG, Germany -- It took Joachim Broers only 20 minutes to decide he wouldn't cooperate with one of the most far-ranging police sweeps in history.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB1028841176683471040,00.html




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