This sounds like one of the ethics questions posed by Brother  
Malachai in Central Catholic High School.

"The neighborhood paperboy, while delivering my daily newspaper,  
drops photos of a scantily clad neighbor on my lawn as he makes my  
daily delivery. What should I do?"

a) Call the paperboy back and tell him I have his photos
b) Deliver them back to the neighbor and let them know where they  
came from.
c) Open my own web site and become wealthy.  Oh wait I went to high  
school in the 60's.

If a vendor is delivering a client's confidential tapes (and they all  
are) of great value with shoddy practice, then the owner of those  
tapes should know that their confidence is being compromised.

In one major city, a large data processing house experienced  
repetitive situations where their work in progress was being taken  
offsite but then sent to their client, not back to them.  This  
created great inventory discrepancies.  Luckily the clients alerted  
them to the situation of the vendor delivering the tapes to the wrong  
destination. They delivered to the name on the carton not the name on  
the delivery bill.

If everybody had kept quiet about it, large tapes losses would have  
occurred.  The client thinking they were tapes ready for re-encoding  
would write over them, thus making them disappear from the face of  
the earth. (Lost to re-use never the less.)

The processing company not being aware of what happened would have  
assumed lost tapes and been thrown into a panic and a huge restore.

Only by alerting all parties to what was going on did the problem  
reconcile itself.  In this case, by switching vendors to someone who  
knew how to track tapes and schedule deliveries.

The courts and the Congress are putting ever more pressure on keeping  
records confidential. Chain of Custody, Security, Integrity all being  
legislated by Rule 26, ESI, SOX and ID Theft laws with more to come.

We are, our brothers' keeper.   Brother Malachai, wherever you are,  
you were a great teacher.  May the Lord Bless you and keep you all  
the days of your life.

P.S. If only Beowulf had come out as a movie while I was in High School.


Hugh Smith
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