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AT Least 700 IDs Stolen From ChoicePoint
ABC News - USA
The enterance to ChoicePoint Inc. is shown Thursday, Feb. 17, 2005 in
Alpharetta,
Ga. About 145,000 people nationwide are being ...
<http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=514412>

EXPERTS rap strategy of ChoicePoint
Atlanta Journal Constitution (subscription) - GA,USA
Alpharetta-based ChoicePoint faces a public relations nightmare after it
sold personal data about consumers to identity thieves posing as legitimate
business ...
<http://www.ajc.com/business/content/news/stories/0205/19choicepoint.html>

LOCAL repositories aid the memory
In-Forum (subscription) - Fargo,ND,USA
... Archivist Mark Peihl has a storehouse of information to offer. Also
in Moorhead are the Concordia College Archives at Concordia College where
Lisa Sjoberg will ...
<http://new.in-forum.com/articles/index.cfm?id=83753&section=Columnists&column
ist=Andrea%20Hunter%20Halgrimson>

RARE records survive
The Free Lance-Star - Fredericksburg,VA,USA
... According to Professor Ervin L. Jacobs, records manager and research
archivist at the University of Virginia, parents who had lost contact
with their children ...
<http://www.fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/022005/02192005/1670348>

CHANGES in open records law eyed
Brattleboro Reformer - Brattleboro,VT,USA
... newspaper's request to release transcripts of interviews with seven
town employees, arguing that the information was not subject to the state's
open records law ...
<http://www.reformer.com/Stories/0,1413,102~8860~2720714,00.html>

SHE knows all about you and you and you
Virginian Pilot - Norfolk,VA,USA
... She believes in open government and knows that court records already
are public documents. She thinks putting those records online is going
too far, though. ...
<http://home.hamptonroads.com/stories/story.cfm?story=82427&ran=59066>

JOURNALISTS seek changes in law on access to records
Barre Montpelier Times Argus - Barre,VT,USA
MONTPELIER -- Vermont journalists Friday asked lawmakers to change the
state's public records law so government would have to pay their legal
bills whenever ...
<http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20050219/NEWS/502190373/
1002>

New York Times, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 9:50 PM PST
Health Industry Under Pressure To Computerize
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/19/business/19health.html
DALLAS, Feb. 17 - Dr. David J. Brailer, the federal official who is trying to
prod the nation's health care system into the computer age, has delivered a
warning to the health care industry: take steps soon to make it happen or the
government will probably impose a solution.

CBS News, Fri, 18 Feb 2005 6:30 PM PST
Private Info For All World To See
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/02/18/eveningnews/consumer/main675093.shtml
As more and more county clerk Web sites post vast numbers of public records
online - from traffic tickets to deed records - the chance of that personal
information falling into the wrong hands greatly increases.  Jim Acosta  reports.




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