Privacy

Speier Privacy Bill Falls to Pass California Assembly Committee

June 17, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Direct Newsline (PRIMEDIA Business Magazine)</p> <p>Tthe financial industry now faces a bigger threat: a stronger ballot initiative that has drawn 200,000 signatures, out of 372,816 needed.</p>

California’s financial privacy bill faces crucial vote

June 17, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Associated Press</p> <p>The hotly debated bill, which supporters say would provide California's consumers with the strongest privacy protections in the nation, faces a crucial vote in the Assembly Banking and Finance Committee.</p>

Group Assails Privacy Measure Changes;

June 14, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Santa Monica consumer advocate says the bill no longer clearly requires businesses to get written consent before sharing personal data.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>FTCR criticized an amendment that they said weakened the Privacy bill by failing to make it clear that a business must obtain the written consent of a customer before sharing the customer's private data with its own family of affiliates and subsidiaries.</p>

Chamber Is Urged to Join Poverty War

June 13, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Sen. Alarcon demands that the state business group pitch in to abolish poverty. An official says lawmakers first should lobby local units of the association.</h3><p class="source">The Los Angeles Times</p> <p>Court charged that the California Chamber of Commerce regularly abuses democratic processes that put the "commercial gain of a few large corporations over the interests of the individual, society, small business and ethical companies."</p>

Measure To Require Calif PUC Elections Moves To Senate Floor

June 11, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Dow Jones International News Service</p> <p>A California Senate committee Wednesday approved a measure that would ask voters to decide if board members of the state's Public Utilities Commission should be elected, rather than appointed by the governor.</p>

Snooping on the governor

June 9, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Sacramento Bee</p> <p>When Gov. Gray Davis called a press conference last seek to support Sen. Jackie Speier's financial privacy bill -- after years of seemingly sitting on the sidelines -- backers of the bill were struck by the timing.</p>

Golden State of Privacy

June 8, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">Los Angeles Times</p> <p>It's fitting that California, which has perhaps the nation's most severe identity theft problem, could soon have a groundbreaking financial privacy law.</p>

Everything Has a Price, Including Your Private Information

June 2, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<p class="source">The Los Angeles Times - Commentary</p> <p>Corporations recognize no inherent harm to the individual from this violation of privacy because, absent the relationship to the company, corporations increasingly do not recognize the individual and her societal rights. (Which explains unsolicited telema</p>

Don’t Kill The Messenger, Just Buy Him Out

May 30, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

<h3>Proposed FCC Rule Changes Threaten American Democracy</h3><p class="source">San Diego Union Tribune</p> <p>The free press is supposed to serve the public interest in informing. With fewer and fewer broadcasters, however,the newsgathering resources, the information the public receives, and the diversity of voices will shrink.</p>

INTERVIEW WITH JAMIE COURT, Executive Director with FTCR

May 19, 2003  ·  Jamie Court

<p class="source">Corporate Crime Reporter</p> <p>In his new book, Corporateering: How Corporate Power Steals Your Personal Freedom (Putnam, 2003), consumer advocate Jamie Court argues that corporations routinely rob us of our personal freedoms, including privacy, security, the right to legal recourse, a</p>

Critical Blood Test Ignored in Emergency Room, Husband and Father Dies

May 19, 2003  ·  Consumer Watchdog

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Striking a blow for consumers

May 6, 2003  ·  Carmen Balber

<p class="source">The Vancouver Sun (British Columbia, Canada)</p> <p>California consumer activists are trying to create a three-strikes-and-you're-out law for corporations, backing a bill that would bar a company from doing business in California if it's convicted of three felonies in a 10-year period.</p>