Privacy

FCC puts do-not-fax on hold

August 20, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>New rules regulating unsolicited faxes are delayed.</h3><p class="source">St. Petersburg Times (Florida)</p> <p>Fax owners must use company time to sort through the faxes, and they sometimes find their phone lines tied up when they need important faxes to go through. Home business owners are often awakened by beeps as fax advertisers try to catch the best phone rat</p>

Assembly passes privacy bill

August 19, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Tri-Valley Herald (Pleasanton, CA)</p> <p>"If this proposal was not half a loaf, the industry wouldn't swallow it," said Jerry Flanagan of FTCR. "We believe people deserve the full loaf they thought they were getting with their signature for a ballot initiative."</p>

Privacy measure faces beat the clock;

August 18, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Wednesday deadline for passage of bill</h3><p class="source">The San Francisco Chronicle</p> <p>"The only reason SB1 was brought back, obviously, is because the governor needed some popular issues to show the state of California that he deserves to keep his job.", said Jerry Flanagan of FTCR.</p>

Groups, lawmakers cut financial privacy deal

August 15, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>Jamie Court of FTCR said supporters of Davis worked out the compromise in an effort to help him survive the recall. "If you have a watered-down version of a bill that is already watered down, you have more water than substance.", said Court.</p>

Deal reached on financial privacy measure

August 15, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Copley News Service</p> <p>But not all privacy advocates are happy. Jerry Flanagan of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights said the governor and supporters "took a watered down version" of the initiative and "watered it down even more."</p>

Consumer Privacy Bill Is Urged;

August 15, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Businessman says that if the Legislature doesn't OK measure protecting financial information by next week, he will put a similar initiative on the ballot.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>The compromise did not satisfy the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, whose officials charged it was a weak substitute for the ballot measure. "We think the ballot initiative should go forward," said spokesman Jamie Court.</p>

Banks, insurance companies reluctantly OK privacy bill

August 15, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Ventura County Star (California)</p> <p>The Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, complained that the compromise gives too much ground and accused Davis of accepting a watered-down measure just to boost his image in the midst of a recall campaign.</p>

THE RECALL CAMPAIGN; Poll Results, Bustamante Hinder Davis’ Ability to Raise Money;

August 14, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>The governor may not reach the $15-million goal he believes is needed to defeat recall.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>"He is going to be getting a flood of money from every special interest that has a bill on his desk," said Jamie Court, executive director of the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights in Santa Monica. "This is going to be prime time fund-raising</p>

Privacy Bill Deal Reportedly Reached;

August 14, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Measure would bar firms from selling consumers' financial data without consent.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>"Any new law should be at least as protective as the ballot initiative" by requiring a clearly written and easily understood consumer consent form for the consumer to sign when he or she agrees to the sharing of private information, said Jamie Court</p>

Business, consumer groups cut deal over financial privacy bill

August 14, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>"Californians deserve the right to vote to protect their privacy if the Legislature cannot deliver a comparable safeguard," Jerry Flanagan, the N. California director for the Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, wrote in a letter to Gov. Davis</p>

Letter to Gov. Davis: Don’t Give Californians More Illusions About Their Privacy In Order To Save Yourself From The Recall

August 13, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

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State has new law to limit unwanted faxes

August 3, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Chattanooga Times Free Press (Tennessee)</p> <p>Doug Heller, senior consumer advocate for the California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights, said people get frustrated when "irrelevant junk" ties up their fax machines. "These companies are using toner and paper to advertise products.</p>