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RAIN 826 Weekly Update: Privacy (12)



Information Week 8/19/02
Editor's Note: It's Time To Get Down To The Business Of Privacy
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020816S0034


Information Week 8/19/02
Wary Customers Don't Trust Businesses To Protect Privacy
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020816S0009


New York Times 8/19/02
Companies Dig Deeper Into Executives' Pasts
By ALEX KUCZYNSKI
he nation's major corporations, facing a tide of public suspicion and investor mistrust, are responding by vetting candidates for top positions as never before, looking into all aspects of their professional and private lives with an intensity usually reserved for major criminal investigations or Park Avenue co-op board applications.
Public companies are hiring accounting, security and investigative firms to pore over court documents, search federal databases and interview long-lost college girlfriends, ex-husbands and former employers.
http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/19/business/19SLEU.html



Information Week 8/19/02
Making [Privacy] Work
Developing a policy to protect customers is only the beginning
By Rick Whiting
The privacy policy is written and posted on a company's Web site. The 2002 privacy-policy notice, a complicated statement required of financial-services companies under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, is in the mail. Top executives and perhaps even the board of directors have reviewed the policy to make sure it will protect the company's good name. So it's mission accomplished on the privacy front. Or is it?
Hardly. Privacy policies on Web sites and in mailings are just words. The hard part is backing them up with the employee training and information technology to make them work. Regulatory actions such as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, which requires financial-services companies to notify customers of their information-sharing practices, have produced a mountain of mail for consumers and much moaning from banks about the cost, but they've done little to help customers understand or businesses enforce their privacy policies. "Many companies are still focused on the regulator's agenda. The ones that are more advanced are working on the customer's," says Leigh Williams, chief privacy officer at Fidelity Investments.
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020816S0010


Palm Beach Post 8/19/02
Medical records could be even safer
The final rules to protect Americans' medical privacy aren't as good as they could be or as bad as they might have been.
http://www.gopbi.com/partners/pbpost/epaper/editions/today/opinion_d3e5296b10bb00b60031.html



Sun-Sentinel 8/19/02
Bush Administration allows pharmacies to invade your privacy
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/business/local/sfl-ybheady19aug19.story?coll=sfla%2Dbusiness%2Dheadlines



Information Week 8/19/02
Privacy Policies: The Condensed Version
http://www.informationweek.com/story/IWK20020816S0011


AMNews 8/20/02
Second group files suit over privacy rules
The suit planned by the Assn. of American Physicians and Surgeons will challenge the constitutionality of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996.
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_01/gvsd0820.htm



BBC News 8/20/02
Privacy fears over EU snooping plans
Your online life could be visible to a lot of organisations The records of who you contact via phone, web, fax or mobile could soon be stored for years under a proposal drafted by European governments.
If passed, the law would force anyone providing communication services to keep records for at least a year of what customers have been doing.
The records would be available to police forces across the European Union investigating almost any crime.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/2204909.stm



ZDNET UK 8/20/02
Fears over EU's secret surveillance plans
Graeme Wearden
Privacy groups believe that European governments will soon force ISPs and telcos to store details of Web use, emails and phone calls for up to two years Privacy advocates have claimed that the European Union is planning to bring in sweeping changes to the laws that govern data retention and privacy in the EU, compelling the long-term storage of users' communications traffic data and making this information available to EU governments.
http://news.zdnet.co.uk/story/0,,t269-s2121054,00.html


WIRED 8/21/02
New Salvo in Piracy, Privacy War
By Brad King
The music industry's trade association is asking a federal district court to force an Internet service provider to turn over private information on a subscriber, heating up the legal war between technology and entertainment companies.
The Recording Industry Association of America wants Verizon Internet Services to turn over information on one of its subscribers, whom the RIAA suspects of offering a large collection of MP3s for download.
http://www.wired.com/news/mp3/0,1285,54678,00.html



AMNews  8/26/02
Medical records privacy rules finalized
Implementation of the new HIPAA regulations begins in April 2003.
http://www.ama-assn.org/sci-pubs/amnews/pick_02/gvsa0826.htm




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