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Declan McCullagh reports on new legislation, The Internet Tax Non-Discrimination Act, co-sponsored by Rep. Chris Cox and Sen. Wyden. Although not mentioned in Declan’s article, the bill numbers for the new legislation are S. 52 and H.R 49, and appear in the January 7, 2003 Congressional Record. The bills seek to “permanently extend the moratorium …
A new California law, SB 1386, that takes effect July 1, 2003 (highlighted in my previous posting here), reaches beyond the state of California. According to this SecurityFocus article, the ABA Cybersecurity Task Force and industry groups discussed the ramifications of the law that requires businesses maintaining personal data on California citizens to report security …
Declan McCullagh reports that the election will have a big impact on key tech legislation as committee chairs change and support for the tech industry is bolstered. See the Information Technology Council High Tech Voting Guide for the 107th Congress, referenced in the second article.
EPIC has published The Privacy Law Sourcebook 2002, is a good choice for researchers who want to have the full text of major privacy laws and directives in one easy to use source, as well as associated links to privacy resources on the web.
The Lawyer’s Committee for Human Rights indicated their support for the Global Internet Freedom Act via this letter to Reps. Hyde and Lantos. For more details and background about this bill, H.R. 5524, please see my previous postings here, here, and here.
H.R. 4561, the “Federal Agency Protection of Privacy Act” now moves to the Senate. The legislation would require all federal agencies when promulgating new rules to consider their impact on the privacy of individuals.
North Carolina State Attorney General Roy Cooper has secured the support of the state Senate, and now the House, for an identity theft bill. See House Bill 1100 for the text of the legislation.
The ACLU placed an ad in publications including the Congressional Quarterly Daily Monitor and Congress Daily, demanding “that any Homeland Security bill contain five basic civil liberties protections.”
The Unlawful Internet Gambling Funding Prohibition Act H.R.556, passed the House and was referred to the Senate. The bill would prevent banks, financial institutions and credit card companies from transferring payments to Internet gambling sites, most of which are offshore.
ZDNet reports that the clock has run out on the possibility of any new privacy legislation this year. However, consumers are not about to let this issue die on the vine, so legislators will try once again in 2003.
The California Senate, in a 25-13 vote on August 31, 2002, killed the Financial Information Privacy Act (SB 773), “which would require a financial institution, as defined, to provide a specified written form to a consumer relative to the sharing of the consumer’s confidential consumer before the financial institution could share the confidential consumer information …
The Center for Digital Government has given its first ever award, in the category of Best Digital Legislature, to the Arizona State Legislature Information System (ALIS) web site, which “allows the public to create individualized bill-tracking systems, among many other features and services. Arizona also boasts a 100 percent usage rate of members with laptops.” …
