Show NATION The Salt Lake Tribune Federal Phone Bills — and Calls — Now on By Frank Greve KNIGHT-RIDDE- — Until recently the government's $50 million monthly phone bill ran to more than a million pages and ended up boxed in a southern Illinois warehouse But in a development marvelous and ominous those bills now are available on six shiny WASHINGTON CD-RO- discs Government bosses and investigators now can identify in 18 seconds — and without a court order — the date time and duration of every long distance call made from hundreds of thousands of federal phones In theory the new system will help managers trim personal calls from the government's phone bill But workers are discovering to their horror that these detailed phone records — along with er mail data and fax records — also are serving as awesomely powerful new tools for investigating employees Such investigations have cost people jobs and chilled the atmos personal-compute- Its amazing how often it makes your case when you can ask 'Well who in your office phoned Mr X at 2:20 on July 23 and talked to him for 31 minutes?' says Sherman M Funk recently retired Inspector General of the State Department "It's also amazing" Funk adds "how few people realize how easily this can be done" All new forms of electronic reecord — phone and mail and computer files — are "dangerous to the person who creates the record" warns Francis McDonough the government's mantop ager -Think carefully about what fax-billin- electronic-informatio- n g constitutionally protected traced - by the - ''‘?' 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having a wonderful fantastic time" Bob Szuber said Thursday But on the night of Aug 18 the car she was riding in went off a curvy road in the Great Smoky Mountains National Park about 40 miles from Knoxville Term The car hit a rock wall careened back onto the road and rolled several times The driver Todd Douglas Herbst 24 of Royal Oak was treated for minor injuries He was charged with drunken driving possession of an open container of alcohol driving on a suspended license and unsafe operation said Great Smoky Mountains National Park spokeswoman Nancy Gray Patti Szuber was airlifted to the University of Tennessee Medical Center in Knoxville in "extremely critical condition" Bob Szuber said Her family rushed to Tennessee from Berkley Mich to sit by her side From the minute Patti Szuber entered the hospital her prognosis was poor her brother said By Sunday she had been pronounced brain dead Her family concurred with Patti's decision years earlier to donate her organs "At the time we had no idea that donation of Patti's heart to our father was even a possibility" Bob Szuber said A family has two choices once they decide to donate: Give the organs to society or specify an individual on the national waiting list whom they know said Thomas Beyersdorf executive director of the Organ Procurement Association of Michigan The Szubers were informed of the choices Chester Szuber had been on the t waiting list for nearly four years He was at the top of the list of 71 people awaiting heart transplants in Michigan but not at the top of the national waiting list of 2935 He was suffering heartbeat irregularities and had undergone three surgeries and two angioplasties in the past 20 years to clear block- plane crash Thursday when the pontoon plane he was piloting upon takeoff from the ocean off Nantucket Island "He had just taken off from the water when the plane suddenly into the water and capsized- said Sgt Charles Gibson of the Nantucket police Buffett was the sole occupant of the plane he suffered no visible injuries but complained of pain and was taken to a hospital He was released after an examination and took another flight off the island The plane remains submerged RTC official in Chicago plains Joel Reidenberg a Ford-haUniversity Law School professor and specialist in workplace surveillance "The government may have to clear some hurdles to get to them but the boss doesn't- - Reidenberg notes "and when the boss is the government the worker's rights are extremely limited" This sometimes comes as a shock For example Resolution Trust Corp investigators approached " NANTUCKET Mass — Singer Jimmy Buffett swam away from a investigators Her next call ex- NEWS SERVICE REUTER ' 4 weeks to lead "essentially a normal lifestyle" Altshuler said His daughter's death on a mountain road in Tennessee came while she was on a trip with a friend before her return to nursing school "The day she arrived she talked to my mother and said she was Singer Buffett Swims ANi a From Plane Crash ' 4:kt i'l West Coast RTC lawyer Evelyn Davidson recently seeking the source of her passed-alongossip that the agency's top executive officer was the subject of a corruption probe Davidson refused to name her source but agreed to phone him and ask if he would talk to the M -t- full-tim- e ' 4 '11- g CD-RO- munications records are echnically easy cheap and legal" says Lewis Maltby director of the American Civil Liberties Union's Workplace Rights Office Only the privacy of the actual content of office phone calls is government surveillance of private life Private employers also are watching workers' communications intently The Bank of Boston Federal Express American Airlines Pacific Bell and United Parcel Service all have warned their employees that their use of office systems may be probed Unlike wiretaps which require moncourt approval and telecom of office itoring probes iii-''- '''il ' Gives Her Dad New Lease on Life Continued from McDonyou say and to whomough advises "Assume all telephone calls are traceable" says Funk "It's 1984 in the government just 10 years late" says a senior investigator at the Labor Department referring to author George Orwell's chilling 1949 book about across the country Daughter's Heart 111 - phere in government offices NEWS SERVICE A3 Friday August 26 1994 US SAtuRDAY 10 AM-- 7 PM) CIOSED SUNDAY k '' |