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Computerworld 7/16/02
Shark Tank: That should have been your first clue
By SHARKY
JULY 16, 2002
The morning after this drugstore chain almost gets shut down by a user error, an IT pilot fish who whiteknuckled her way through the incident goes looking for the culprit.
"A user loaded the entire item file from a large greeting card company and chose the option to send the file to all stores, rather than just the group of stores that needed them," fish says.
http://www.computerworld.com/databasetopics/data/story/0,10801,72747,00.html


New York Times 8/11/02
Virtual
By PATRICIA T. O'CONNER and STEWART KELLERMAN
We had virtually finished our book on e-mail and other virtual writing before we gave much thought to the origins of the word virtual. In its latest incarnation (used like digital, e- and cyber- to describe something existing in the electronic ether), virtual is even more ubiquitous than Elvis memorabilia on eBay.
It was probably inevitable that scientists in the last half of the 20th century would seize on virtual to mean simulated or carried out by means of computers. Long before Univac -- since the mid-17th century, in fact -- virtual had come to mean existing in effect rather than in reality. And the adverb virtually meant something akin to ''practically'' or ''almost,'' as in ''virtually everyone knows Pepys.''
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/11/magazine/11ONLANGUAGE.html?


Arizona Daily Star 8/15/02
Genomics institute guarding privacy
By Jeannine Relly
The new Translational Genomics Research Institute, a publicly funded organization with
government officials on its board, plans to bar the public from its meetings and restrict access to its records.
http://www.azstarnet.com/star/thu/20815biofile.html


Wall Street Journal 8/16/02
Follow These Rules About Office E-Mail
By KEVIN VOIGT
In South Korea this week, brokerage-firm employees were suspended after regulators searched e-mails for information leaks.
In Hong Kong last week, a woman published a notice of apology in a newspaper for sending an e-mail that claimed Fancl House cosmetics stores were closing in Japan. And on Wall Street, regulators are coming down on securities firms for not turning over
their electronic correspondences.
http://online.wsj.com/article/0,,SB102945258445266835,00.html?



PlanetOut 08/16/02
Patients at the largest private AIDS clinic in Broward County, Fla., worry that the
government may violate their privacy rights now that their health records have been
confiscated.
Investigators from the Florida Medicaid Fraud Control Unit pulled up with a warrant and a U-Haul at the Community Healthcare/Center One offices on Wednesday, saying the Florida attorney general's office is conducting a criminal investigation into the office's billing practices.
http://www.planetout.com/pno/news/article.html?date=2002/08/15/1



San Francisco Chronicle 8/15/02
Doctors, hospitals back new privacy laws
Victoria Colliver, Chronicle Staff Writer
When new regulations governing computerized medical records were approved last week, privacy advocates hit the roof. Consumer crusaders cried foul, saying patients'
personal information would be bandied about willy-nilly.
The reaction was different in the medical community, where hospital and doctors' groups applaud the plan, backed by the Bush administration, saying the new rules will maintain patients' privacy and could lead to better health care.
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2002/08/15/BU213016.DTL&type=business



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