Date: Fri, 19 May 95 06:52:46 EST Errors-To: Comp-privacy Error Handler From: Computer Privacy Digest Moderator To: Comp-privacy@uwm.edu Subject: Computer Privacy Digest V6#046 Computer Privacy Digest Fri, 19 May 95 Volume 6 : Issue: 046 Today's Topics: Moderator: Leonard P. Levine Anonymity on Computer Privacy Digest CIBC and Royal Bank to do MONDEX pilot Medical Record Privacy Re: National Caller ID GovAccess is Again 'Live and Kickin' Cyber-Liberty Alert #4: State Bills to Regulate Online Content Info on CPD [unchanged since 12/29/94] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From: wmcclatc@posh.internext.com (Bill McClatchie) Date: 15 May 1995 19:17:26 -0400 Subject: Anonymity on Computer Privacy Digest The Computer Privacy Digest is a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy or vice versa. The digest is moderated and gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy (Moderated). Submissions should be sent to comp-privacy@uwm.edu and administrative requests to comp-privacy-request@uwm.edu. [..] Anonymized mail is not accepted. Has anyone else noticed the contradiction between the first paragraph and this one line? After all, anonymized mail is a form of privacy allowed by technology. -- Bill McClatchie wmcclatc@internext.com http://nyx10.cs.du.edu:8001/~wmcclatc [moderator: I allow people who wish to remain anonymous to request such and post the material over my own sig. I, however, do not allow postings sent openly from anonymizers (sp?). Should I change this policy?] ------------------------------ From: bo774@freenet.carleton.ca (Kelly Bert Manning) Date: 16 May 1995 06:56:39 GMT Subject: CIBC and Royal Bank to do MONDEX pilot Organization: The National Capital FreeNet, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada The Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce and the Royal Bank have announced plans to pilot a "smart" cash card. Apparently this is based on a chip based card used in Europe. Unlike a credit card there would be no name or other personal data on it. Users would supposedly refill it at an ATM or by dialing into their bank if they are unconcerned enough about banking by phone to get it activated for their account. The cards would have no PIN or other password and if they were lost or stolen the user would be out of pocket unless it was returned to the bank. Is this one likely to take off? The bank representative I spoke with seemed quite up front about the idea of it being a cost saving measure for the banks(an attempt to reduce the use of cash in ATMs) as a well as one that would let them charge new fees to the users and merchants. With the proliferation of debit and credit card technology this seems like a specialty item. I've heard enough about ATM and credit card account disputes to wonder about how easy it would be to dispute this if the merchants deducted more from the card than they should. I'm not sure that users would rather pay for the privilege of using this kind of card, or than enough businesses would get on board to make it fly. ------------------------------ From: CPRMA@aol.com Date: 16 May 1995 14:28:21 -0400 Subject: Medical Record Privacy I am a physician and psychiatrist and president of the Coalition for Patient Rights of Massachusetts. We are working exclusively in the area of trying to establish genuine privacy of medical records in the age of the computer. We have a lot of information about what is going on with computerized medical records as they are getting more and more widely accessible. Data banks and networks are springing up right and left. We have the opportunity to bring this to national media attention if we collect a few patients who will be willing to tell of their experience. Their identity will be completely shielded visually and voice. If you can help us with this alert I will be most appreciative. Please contact me if you know of anyone who has experienced a violation of their privacy because their medical records were on a computer in their health plan, doctor's office, hospital, or Medical Information Bureau. You can reach me at cprma@aol.com or by calling 617-433-0114 The Coalition of Patient Rights of Massachusetts. We are a national organization interested in protecting the privacy of medical records. -- Denise M. Nagel, MD ------------------------------ From: joew@sunrise.stanford.edu (Joe Wagner) Date: 17 May 1995 18:30:51 GMT Subject: Re: National Caller ID Organization: Stanford University QBKY95A@prodigy.com (Charles Pinck) wrote: Two weeks ago, before the FCC announced its approval of national caller ID (which I presume will take some time to implement), I received a call in Washington, DC from a friend in San Francisco and her number appeared on my caller id unit. Has anyone else had a similiar experience? I remember about six months ago I called a friend in DC from out here in Redwood City (35 minutes south of San Francisco) and got his answering machine. When I final got ahold of him the next day, he told me that he couldn't figure out who he knew that had a 415 area code that he saw stored on his caller ID box. -- Joe ------------------------------ From: jwarren@well.com (Jim Warren) Date: 17 May 1995 14:29:21 +0800 Subject: GovAccess is Again 'Live and Kickin' (Spread the word!) GovAccess irregularly distributes ongoing information, action-alerts and often flaming advocacy. It's free - worth at least every penny you pay for it. GovAccess concerns computer-assisted and technology-related: (1) *effective* citizen participation in the process of our own governance, (2) protections and implications regarding constitutional civil liberties, (3) citizen-access to federal, state and/or local government - access to representatives, officials, agencies and computerized government records, (4) government access to and records about citizens - covert and overt, and (5) federal, state and local legislation-in-process, statutes, regulations and court cases and decisions pertaining to these issues. GovAccess postings come from (1) solicited and unsolicited contributors, (2) relevant items spotted in other lists and (3) self-generated items authored by list-owner Jim Warren. Identity of contributors will be protected upon request, within legal limits and at the discretion of the list-owner. Past postings are at ftp.cpsr.org: /cpsr/states/california/govaccess and by WWW at http://www.cpsr.org/cpsr/states/california/govaccess . To subscribe to GovAccess, email to Majordomo@well.com ('Subject' ignored) message: subscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddr To UNsubscribe from GovAccess, email to Majordomo@well.com message: unsubscribe GovAccess YourEmailAddr Anyone can retrieve this current GovAccess information message. Send mail to: Majordomo@well.com (the 'Subject' line is ignored) message: info GovAccess -- Jim Warren, GovAccess list-owner and sometimes-immoderate moderator Advocate & columnist, MicroTimes, Government Technology, BoardWatch, etc. 345 Swett Rd., Woodside CA 94062; voice/415-851-7075; fax/<# upon request> jwarren@well.com (well.com = well.sf.ca.us) [puffery: James Madison Freedom-of-Information Award, Soc. of Professional Journalists - Nor.Calif.(1994); Hugh Hefner First-Amendment Award, Playboy Foundation (1994); Pioneer Award, Electronic Frontier Foundation (1992, its first year); founded Computers, Freedom & Privacy confs, InfoWorld, etc.] ------------------------------ From: ACLU Information Date: 18 May 1995 17:43:28 -0400 Subject: Cyber-Liberty Alert #4: State Bills to Regulate Online Content **ACLU CYBER-LIBERTIES ALERT** STOP STATE LEGISLATORS FROM CENSORING ONLINE CONTENT! As more and more people sign on to the Internet and commercial online networks, there is a growing panic that online networks are being infiltrated by pedophiles and peddlers of obscenity and child pornography. Legislators are proposing severe criminal laws in an effort to purge online networks of these influences. Many of you were first made aware of this threat to your civil liberties by the pending federal legislation - the so-called "Communications Decency Act of 1995", proposed by Senator Exon (D-NE) and recently approved by the Senate Commerce Committee as an amendment to the massive telecommunications reform act now pending in Congress. But while online civil libertarians were distracted by their laudable rally against the Exon Bill, state legislators were busy crafting similar bills at home. **These state bills, like the federal Exon Bill, raise serious First Amendment and privacy concerns.** Legislators are attempting to extend to the online context criminal laws that restrict the following categories of sexually expressive material and behavior: -the distribution of "obscene" materials to adults -the distribution of materials deemed "harmful to minors" -the solicitation of children to engage in sexual conduct -the possession and distribution of visual materials produced through the sexual exploitation of children Through a lack of understanding about how new interactive technologies work, legislators have managed to craft these laws to prohibit a wide range of constitutionally protected material. If enacted into law, these vague and overly broad bills could have the following draconian effects: * Prohibit communications with sexual content through private e-mail between consenting adults, and inhibit people from making comments that might or might not be prohibited. * Require service providers to act as private censors to avoid criminal liability for prohibited material produced by subscribers on their networks. * Prevent health care providers from posting sex education materials to online networks. To date, the ACLU has located and continues to monitor bills proposed this year in twelve states: Alabama, California, Connecticut, Florida, Illinois, Maryland, New York, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Washington. The Oklahoma and Virginia bills were both voted into law in recent weeks. Bills in Washington, Illinois, New York, and Pennsylvania are moving rapidly through state legislatures. ACT NOW: * Contact your state legislators and urge them to oppose the state bill. * Urge legislators to hold full public hearings to identify the problems and to explore technological alternatives to censorship. * Generate online discussion about the threats to civil liberties posed by the state bill. * Organize an online "grass roots" effort to stop the bill. * Ask your online service provider to publicly oppose the state bill. * Write a letter to the editor of your local paper in opposition to the state bill. Discuss the liberating potential of online technology and provide examples. For more information on the pending state bills, visit our gopher site, the ACLU Free Reading Room: gopher://aclu.org:6601/1/issues/cyberspace/state This subdirectory contains the full text of some bills, in addition to ACLU legal analyses of, and letters written to oppose, particular bills. ============================================================= ACLU Free Reading Room | A publications and information resource of the gopher://aclu.org:6601 | American Civil Liberties Union National Office ftp://ftp.pipeline.com /aclu mailto:infoaclu@aclu.org | "Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty" ------------------------------ From: "Prof. L. P. Levine" Date: 29 Dec 1994 10:50:22 -0600 (CST) Subject: Info on CPD [unchanged since 12/29/94] Organization: University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee The Computer Privacy Digest is a forum for discussion on the effect of technology on privacy or vice versa. The digest is moderated and gatewayed into the USENET newsgroup comp.society.privacy (Moderated). 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