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Submitted to the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation for FACTA
Fair Credit Reporting Proposed Rulemaking

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

Elizabeth Mohr, Assistant Chief Counsel
Mary Ann Shulman, Staff Counsel
California Department of Insurance
Rate Enforcement Bureau
San Francisco, CA 94105 

April 16, 2004

Federal Trade Commission
FACTA Free Reports
Post Office Box 1031
Merrified, VA 22116-1031
Electronic Filing: www.regulations.gov

In 1973 the U.S. Dept of Health Education and Welfare (HEW) to look at the impact of computerization on medical records privacy. The members wanted to develop policies that would allow the benefits of computerization to go forward, but at the same time provide safeguards for personal privacy.

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