By Beth Givens, Director, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse

To the National Association of Attorneys General Annual Conference
Seattle, Washington

Thank you for the opportunity to speak to you today about consumer privacy. I am honored to be invited to speak.

Just a few words about the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse before I begin my presentation:

Speech by Beth Givens, PRC Director
Presented at the SEARCH National Conference on
Privacy, Technology and Criminal Justice Information
Washington, DC

I want to thank SEARCH for inviting me to speak at this conference. And I want to commend you on this conference and on the work of the Task Force. It's a pleasure to be here and to learn of your findings. (www.search.org)

A CALPIRG/Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Report
By Janine Benner, CALPIRG; Beth Givens, Privacy Rights Clearinghouse; and Ed Mierzwinski, USPIRG.

 I. Executive Summary  

 II. Findings and Highlights

 III. Analysis of Findings

 IV. Need for Reform: The Victims' Recommendations

 V. CALPIRG/Privacy Rights Clearinghouse Public Policy Platform

Testimony of Beth Givens, Director

Assembly Banking and Finance Committee
Assembly Bill 1707, Assemblymember Sheila Kuehl

Submitted to the following agencies:

U.S. Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Federal Trade Commission
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
Federal Reserve Board
Office of Thrift Supervision
 

The Privacy Rights Clearinghouse is a nonprofit consumer information and advocacy program, established in 1992. We are affiliated with the Utility Consumers' Action Network (UCAN), a non-profit consumer advocacy group established in 1984 and based in San Diego, California.

Members of the California State Legislature
State Capitol
Sacramento, CA 95814

Dear Senators and Assemblymembers:

The undersigned organizations urge your support of legislation giving customers of financial institutions stronger rights of privacy over their customer information.

Outline of remarks by Beth Givens, Director
U.S. Dept. of Treasury
Washington, D.C.
National Summit on Identity Theft
Panel on Prevention
March 15-16, 2000

March 2000

[Excerpted from Report of the "New York Senate Majority Task Force on the Invasion of Privacy," pages 12-13 March 2000, www.senate.state.ny.us]

I've never looked through a keyhole without finding someone was looking back.
--Judy Garland (1967) US actress, singer

Assistant Secretary for Planning and Evaluation
Attention: Privacy-P, Room G-322A
U.S. Dept. of Health and Human Services
Hubert H. Humphrey Building
200 Independence Ave. SW
Washington, DC 20201

Sent Via Overnight Delivery

Re: Comments on Proposed Federal Rule for Privacy of Individually Identifiable Health Information -- RIN 0991-AB08

Dear Assistant Secretary:

Opening Presentation by Beth Givens
Santa Clara University, Symposium on Internet Privacy
Computer and High Technology Law Journal
February 11-12, 2000

Thank you for the opportunity to participate in this symposium on Internet Privacy. I am honored be here and to speak on consumers' expectations of privacy protection on the Net.