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:

Submitted: May 24, 2005 to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for FACTA, Fair Credit Reporting Proposed Rulemaking by the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.

Robert E. Feldman, Executive Secretary
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
550 17 th Street, NW
Washington, D.C. 20429
Submitted by E-Mail: Comments@FDIC.gov

RE: Fair Credit Reporting Medical Information Regulations -- RIN 3064-AC81

Dear Mr. Feldman:

Shelia had been away from the United States for the past 4 years and wanted to sell her house in California. She contacted several real estate agents to discuss listing the house and was informed by them that her house has been rented. Someone had been collecting the rent on her house, faked her signature and had received loans on her property. This same person had also been made a power of attorney, bought a business and accumulated a huge amount of financial burden all in her name.