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State Action Blog: After passing the National Uniformity for Food Act of 2005 (HR 4167), which strikes down state food and drug consumer protection laws in favor of lax federal standards, a bill introduced in the House uses the same argument””that standards should be uniform””in order to target state laws that protect consumers against identity theft. Twenty-one states require companies to notify consumers when the security of their personal financial data has been breached, enabling consumers to take measures to prevent identity theft from occurring. (via Cosmos)
[The Canadian Privacy Law Blog] Congressional committee sends data breach bill... : function BlogThis() {Q='';x=document;y=window;if(x.selection) {Q=x.selection.createRange().text;} else if (y.getSelection) { Q=y.getSelection();} else if (x.getSelection) { Q=x.getSelection();}popw = y.open('http://www.blogger.com/blog_this.pyra?t=' + escape(Q) + '&u=' + escape(location.href) + '&n=' + escape(document.title),'bloggerForm','scrollbars=no,width=475,height=300,top=175,left=75,status=yes,resizable=yes');void(0);}
[Emergent Chaos: The Emergent Chaos Jazz Combo of the Blogosphere] National breach list? Pinch me!: ChoicePoint keeps a complete list of data breaches online at www.privacyatchoicepoint.com. CreditBloggers.com has a must-read interview with a ChoicePoint insider about consumer privacy and identity theft online today - http://www.creditbloggers.com/2006/04/12_questions_fo.html
[Protect Personal and Financial Privacy] IRS to Allow Tax Preparers to Sell Returns!: This rules change is apparently proposed at the behest of Congressman Ed Markey of Illinois who raised privacy concerns when it was discovered that some tax preparers were outsourcing tax preparation online to India and other countries without privacy protections. It was supposedly to prevent the loss of financial information to identity thieves.
[Library Boy] Updated Chronology of Major Data Privacy... : No Canadian province has yet instituted such legislation, except perhaps for Ontario with its Personal Health Information Protection Act, though the Ontario Privacy Commissioner has called for such a law for all sectors of society and business.
[Unsecureprivacy.com] unSecure Privacy: S.1408: Identity Theft Protection Act: Ted Stevens (R-Alaska), John McCain (R-Ariz.), Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii) and Gordon Smith (R-Ore.) have co-sponsored the latest federal bill concerning ID Theft and security breach notification. The Identity Theft Protect Act (pdf here) (S.1408) provides would
[Cio.com] Senate Panel Approved Data-Breach Bill - CIO News Alerts - Blog - CIO: Like most data-breach bills now before Congress, the Specter-Leahy bill would preempt the more than 20 state laws that now require data-breach notification. Some consumer and privacy advocates have expressed concern over weak data-breach laws preempting stronger state laws, but officials with the Center for Democracy and Technology (CDT), a privacy advocacy group, called the Specter-Leahy the most comprehensive data breach notification bill now before Congress.
[Idtheftsecrets.blogspot.com] Id Theft Secrets Blog: Identity Theft from Stolen Fidelity Laptop ...: Quick Tips, Reviews, & Resources to aid busy consumers in protecting credit and personal information fromidentity theft fraud.
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