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The News & Advance (Virginia) Doug Heller, senior consumer advocate for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in California, said one…
Jun 16, 2003Associated Press "They wanted it both ways," said Harvey Rosenfield, president of the Foundation for Taxpayer & Consumer Rights, who explained that…
Jun 14, 2003Santa Monica consumer advocate says the bill no longer clearly requires businesses to get written consent before sharing personal data.The Los Angeles…
Jun 14, 2003New Amendments Also Give Banks A 45-Day Window To Share Information Even If A Consumer Says "No" The latest version of the…
Jun 13, 2003Sen. Alarcon demands that the state business group pitch in to abolish poverty. An official says lawmakers first should lobby local units…
Jun 13, 2003In Proposition 103 Hearing SCPIE Indemnity VP Claims MICRA Did Not Reduce Risk A major medical malpractice insurer has acknowledged that the…
Jun 11, 2003In Proposition 103 Hearing SCPIE Indemnity VP Claims MICRA Did Not Reduce Risk
Jun 11, 2003Dow Jones International News Service A California Senate committee Wednesday approved a measure that would ask voters to decide if board members…
Jun 11, 2003Tell Telemarketers "Do Not Call" - Author Offers Other Remedies 1.08 million individuals registered 1.9 million phone numbers since April as "off…
Jun 10, 2003Written Testimony of SCPIE Executive In Response to Prop 103-Challenge to Rate Increase Written testimony of SCPIE Assistant Vice President and Associate…
Jun 10, 2003BestWire Consumer groups and several city attorneys have petitioned California Insurance Commissioner John Garamendi to strike down a 7-year-old rule dictating how…
Jun 10, 2003Assembly Banking Committee Delays Key Hearing - Social Security Numbers of Opponents Bought "Written consent is an important improvement on this bill…
Jun 9, 2003Cynthia Smith - Concord, California
Jun 9, 2003Sacramento Bee When Gov. Gray Davis called a press conference last seek to support Sen. Jackie Speier's financial privacy bill -- after…
Jun 9, 2003The San Francisco Chronicle Will this stop what Court calls "corporateering" -- when corporations exceed their traditional role in the marketplace, invade…
Jun 9, 2003Los Angeles Times It's fitting that California, which has perhaps the nation's most severe identity theft problem, could soon have a groundbreaking…
Jun 8, 2003