UPDATE (6/29/06): The stolen laptop computer and the external hard drive were recovered. www.usa.gov/veteransinfo.shtml
UPDATE (7/14/06): FBI and VA Inspector General conducted a forensic examination on the laptop and reported that no data had been removed. But experts say there are ways to thwart detection.
Deadline for comments is May 11, 2006
Prohibit Debt Collectors from Calling Cell Phones: Comments to the Federal Communications Commission
Submitted by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse on
May 11, 2006
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12th Street, SW
Washington, DC 20554
Filed electronically: www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs
Comments to the Federal Communications Commission regarding Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI), CC Docket No. 96-115
Marlene H. Dortch, Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12 th Street, SW
Washington , DC 20554
Filed electronically: www.fcc.gov/cgb/ecfs
RE: Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) -- CC Docket No. 96-115
Dear Secretary Dortch:
Speech by Beth Givens, PRC Director, at the Conference of the National Association of Professional Background Screeners
Nashville, TN
April 5, 2006
The theme of this panel is the tradeoff between the right to privacy and the right to know. I think the tension between openness and privacy is one of the more challenging public policy issues of our time.
At tax time, like most people, you are concerned about the bottom line: Will I get a refund or will I have to pay? Privacy may never enter your mind, but perhaps it should.
When you visit the tax preparer, you may get stacks of papers to sign. Pressed for time, you may sign your name without a close reading. Or, you may just assume that what you tell your accountant will go no further than the IRS.
Submitted electronically by the PRC to: Notice.Comments@irscounsel.treas.gov
Internal Revenue Service
P.O. Box 7604, Room 5203
Ben Franklin Station
Washington, DC 20044
ATTN: CC:PA:LPD:PR (REG 137243-02)
RE: Disclosure and Use of Tax Return Information REG 137243-02 http://www.irs.gov/irb/2006-03_IRB/ar16.html
Submitted by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
January 18, 2006
Secretary
Federal Communications Commission
445 12 th St, SW
Washington, D.C. 20554
Submitted electronically: www.regulations.gov
RE: FCC CG Docket No. 05-338
Junk Fax Prevention Act of 2005
To the Secretary and the Commission:
Last month you ordered pizza every night for a week. You placed an anonymous call to Child Protective Services. You checked your voicemail 25 times one day to see if that special person had called.
Most of us assume that our phone records are private. Despite mounting legal battles, information brokers on the Internet continue to offer the name and address connected to a cell phone number, an individual's phone number, even the complete record of outgoing and incoming phone calls.
Submitted by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse on Dec. 19, 2005
Federal Trade Commission
Office of the Secretary, Room H-159 (Annex H)
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20580
Filed electronically: https://secure.commentworks.com/ftcIDTheftSurvey
Filed by FAX with OMB (202) 395-6974
RE: FTC File No. P034303 -- ID Theft Survey
Dear Mr. Secretary: