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House and Senate Agree on Consumer ID Theft Protection

Conferees Reach Agreement on Landmark Identity Theft Legislation:

  • Highlights of the House Financial Services Committee conference report on H.R. 2622 on the National Consumer Credit Reporting System Improvement Act of 2003, indicate the legislation will:
  • “Provide consumers with a free credit report every year from each of the three national credit bureaus, from a single centralized source
  • Provide consumers with new, landmark national identity theft protections
  • Provide consumers with broad new medical privacy rights
  • Give consumers the ability to opt-out of information sharing between affiliated companies for marketing purposes
  • Establish a financial literacy commission and a national financial literacy campaign; and
  • Ensure that consumers are notified if merchants are going to report negative information to the credit bureaus about them.”
  • Press release from California state Senator Debra Bowen, Congress Pulls The Rug Out From Californians Worried About Protecting Their Privacy
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