Protecting your privacy: legislation to stop information hounds in their tracks.Only a few decades ago, ensuring one's privacy involved little more than buying the best home security system and a state-of-the-art car alarm. But in today's digital age, protecting your privacy requires a lot more diligence. Before you panic, read on for tips on how to protect your privacy and learn what the federal government is doing to ensure that your information isn't is·n't Contraction of is not. isn't is not isn't be distributed to every spammer, mortgage loan consolidator, credit card company, and pizza parlor within a 20-mile radius of your home. The next time a business requests your personal information, ask if the information is necessary to complete the sale. If it's not, just say no. The Electronic Privacy Information Center Electronic Privacy Information Center or EPIC is a public interest research group in Washington D.C.. It was established in 1994 to focus public attention on emerging civil liberties issues and to protect privacy, the First Amendment, and constitutional values in the (www.epic.org) also suggests that consumers avoid returning product warranty cards and completing consumer surveys. Sheila Sheila is a common given name for a female, taken from the Gaelic name Síle/Sìle, which is believed to be a Gaelic form of Julia or Cecilia. Like "Cecil" or "Cecilia", the name means "Smart and Wise", from the Latin caecus. Adkins, the associate director of public affairs Those public information, command information, and community relations activities directed toward both the external and internal publics with interest in the Department of Defense. Also called PA. See also command information; community relations; public information. for the Council of Better Business Bureaus (www.bbb.org), says consumers should further protect themselves by choosing to opt out of having their personal information sold or passed on to data brokers or certain third parties. Thanks to the Financial Modernization modernization Transformation of a society from a rural and agrarian condition to a secular, urban, and industrial one. It is closely linked with industrialization. As societies modernize, the individual becomes increasingly important, gradually replacing the family, Act of 1999, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, also known as the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act, Pub. L. No. 106-102, 113 Stat. 1338 (November 12, 1999), is an Act of the United States Congress which repealed the Glass-Steagall Act, opening up competition , consumers can request that personal financial information held by financial institutions, which include banks, securities firms, insurance companies, and companies providing financial products and services to customers, not be sold. There is a catch, however. "It's important for consumers to know that information brokers have the fight to trade your information with affiliates, and you can't opt out," says Jerry Flanagan, a consumer advocate for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights. "For example, if Citigroup, which has 1,600 affiliates, including telemarketing telemarketing, the practice of selling goods or services to customers by means of the telephone or of surveying consumer preferences in telephone conversations. companies and brokerages, chooses to sell your information to them, there's nothing you can do about it." Fortunately, the Federal Trade Commission and states across the country are working hard to enforce and create better privacy laws. For more information about how you can protect your privacy, contact The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (www.consumerwatchdog.org). |
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