Submitted to FDIC and financial regulatory agencies, July 22, 2004
Robert E. Feldman, Executive Secretary
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
550 17th Street, NW
Washington, DC 20429
by E-mail: Comments@FDIC.gov
By the following privacy and consumer organizations:
Calegislation
CALPIRG
Consumer Action
Consumers Union
Electronic Privacy Information Center
Identity Theft Resource Center
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
U.S. PIRG
Updated August 23, 2004
The Work Number provides authorized users usually within Human Resources departments with automated employment and income verification services of nearly 80 million employees of 1,000 participating employers. Participating employers include American Airlines, BankOne, Boeing, Cisco, FedEx, General Electric, Hewlett Packard, Johnson & Johnson, K Mart, Lockheed, Marriot, Microsoft, Nokia, Pepsi, Sony, Visa and Westinghouse.
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Urges Federal Agencies to Investigate Online Pharmacies; also Finds Significant Noncompliance with New California Online Privacy Law
Complaint Submitted to Department of Health and Human Services
By Mark Hochhauser, Ph.D., Readability Consultant
and Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
Submitted by e-mail: OCRComplaint@hhs.gov
Richard M. Campanelli, Director
Office of Civil Rights (OCR)
U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS)
200 Independence Avenue, S.W.
Washington, D.C., 20201
RE: Complaint -- Most Online Pharmacies Lack HIPAA Privacy Notice
By Mark Hochhauser, Ph.D.
Readability Consultant
3344 Scott Avenue North
Golden Valley, MN 55422
Phone: 763-521-4672
Fax: 763-521-5069
E-mail: MarkH38514(at)aol.com
Research verification, additional tips, and resources provided by Jordana Beebe of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
1. Summary
2. Privacy Missing from Most Online Pharmacy Reports
3. Privacy, Business, and Spam
4. Online Pharmacy Privacy Practices
5. Tips for Consumers
6. Resources
Summary
A long battle over financial privacy was decided yesterday as a U.S. District Court ruled that California's SB 1 legislation is not pre-empted by weaker, Federal standards. Californians now have more control over how financial institutions such as banks, insurers and brokerages sell and share customers' information.
On July 1, 2004, an important California consumer law comes into effect, called the Online Privacy Protection Act. It requires commercial web sites that gather personally identifiable information about Calfornians to post a privacy policy on their home page. It's expected that the majority of commercial web sites will need to comply with California's new law, if they do not already.
Testimony to the Federal Trade Commission's RFID Workshop
June 21, 2004
By Beth Givens, Director
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
3100 - 5th Ave., Suite B, San Diego, CA 92103
bethg(at)privacyrights.org
www.privacyrights.org
Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this workshop.
Submitted June 15, 2004, to:
Federal Trade Commission
Office of the Secretary, Room H-159 (Annex H)
600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20580
Filed electronically: www.regulations.gov
By six California consumer advocacy organizations:
Consumer Action
Consumer Federation of California
Identity Theft Resource Center
PrivacyActivism
Privacy Rights Clearinghouse
World Privacy Forum
April 1, 2004 -- On April Fools Day, Google, the Internet search engine heavyweight, soft-launched its new, free email service called Gmail. Beta testers of the new service benefit from 1 gigabyte of storage space and its developers tout better-search functions than other free email accounts such as Yahoo, MSN, and Hotmail. However, Gmail has raised privacy concerns because users cannot opt out of having incoming emails scanned for keywords that Google then uses for content-targeted advertising.