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In States Scramble To Protect Data – Dozens of Privacy Bills Introduced After Spate of Security Breaches, the Washington Post reports that privacy legislation is under consideration in 28 states. However, industry support for a carefully crafted response on the federal level presents serious challenges to the future of these bills.
From the current issue of Managing Technology (Wharton School): Do You Know Where Your Identity Is? Personal Data Theft Eludes Easy Remedies
Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property Oversight Hearing on Digital Music Interoperability and Availability, April 6, 2005. Link to Chairman’s Statement and Witness Statements
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Is your personal data next? Rash of data heists points to fundamental ID theft problem
The Use of Technology to Combat Identity Theft, Report from the Department of the Treasury on the Study conducted pursuant to Section 157 of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (116 pages, PDF)
From the Washington Post, via truthout, Net Aids Access to Sensitive ID Data addresses how it continues to be easy and inexpensive to obtain personal data on the web from a variety of sources, despite the escalating controversy focused on a range of recent ID theft scams launched against large database aggregators.
From AP, ChoicePoint to allow people access to personal records.
Stolen UC Berkeley laptop exposes personal data of nearly 100,000 UC Berkeley police investigating theft of laptop containing grad student ID data Related reference: California Senate Bill 1386, “This bill, operative July 1, 2003, would require a state agency, or a person or business that conducts business in California, that owns or licenses computerized data …
From the Privacy Rights Clearing House: Privacy Groups Urge Federal Reserve Board to Protect Consumers from Identity Theft and Stolen Convenience Checks
Press release today:Westlaw Ends SSN Sales to Private Companies, Greatly Limits Sale to Law Enforcement, Other Public Agencies: “After meeting with top executives last night, Sen. Charles Schumer (NY) announced today that Westlaw would be taking major steps to close large loopholes in its data search systems which previously allowed access to millions of Social …
“LexisNexis has created a Web site with helpful information regarding data privacy at http://privacyfacts.lexisnexis.com.” Related news: Kurt Sanford, President and CEO of LexisNexis Corporate and Federal Markets stated during his testimony today to the House Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection Committee that: “LexisNexis plans to further restrict access to such sensitive information as …
