Identity Theft: How It Happens, Its Impact on Victims, and Legislative Solutions: Testimony for U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information

Written Testimony for U.S. Senate Judiciary Subcommittee
on Technology, Terrorism, and Government Information
Senator Jon Kyl, Chairman

 

Testimony Provided by:
Beth Givens, Director

 

Senator Kyl, Senator Feinstein:

 

Thank you for the opportunity to testify before your Subcommittee today.

 

Michelle's Story: Testimony to the U.S. Senate Committee Hearing on the Judiciary Subcommittee on Technology, Terrorism and Government Information

Mr. Chairman and Members of the Committee,

I am pleased to be in your presence today and I genuinely thank you for the opportunity to elevate the invasive crime known as identity theft. This is a topic that I am unfortunately, intimately familiar with.

What's Missing from This Picture? Privacy Protection in the New Millennium: Speech at the National Association of Attorneys General Annual Conference

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:

Identity Theft: The Growing Problem of Wrongful Criminal Records

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)

 

Victims Speak Out on Identity Theft: A Survey of Identity Theft Victims and Recommendations for Reform

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

Proposed Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Regulations (Gramm-Leach Bliley Act): Comments to Multiple Federal Agencies

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.

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