Banking & Finance

Fact Sheets

24. Protecting Financial Privacy in the New Millennium: The Burden Is on You
24a. Financial Privacy: How to Read Your "Opt-Out" Notices
24c. How to Shop for Financial Privacy
24d. Financial Privacy FAQ
24e. Is Your Financial Information Safe?
30. Check 21: Paperless Banking
31. Customer Identification Programs for Financial Transactions
32. Paper or Plastic: What Have You Got to Lose?
33. Identity Theft Monitoring Services

Alerts

  • Want to Buy a $37 Soda? (August 24, 2009)
  • Spring Cleaning Your Personal and Financial Records (April 18, 2008)
  • The Case of the Disappearing Check: What is Electronic Check Conversion? (January 25, 2007)
  • Tell the IRS that Allowing Tax Preparers to Sell Taxpayer Data to Marketers Is a Bad Idea (March 25, 2006)
  • Privacy Tips for Tax Season (March 6, 2006)
  • Popular Online Investing Attracts Identity Thieves and Phishing Scams (November 13, 2005)
  • Don't Be Scammed by Hurricane Katrina Fraudsters (September 7, 2005)
  • Who Is Using Your Checkbook? FDIC Warns About Qchex.com (August 14, 2005)
  • PRC Applauds Court Decision Upholding California's SB 1 on Financial Privacy (July 1, 2004)
  • Groups Oppose Data Mining of Health Information by Financial Institutions (September 10, 2003)
  • California Financial Information Privacy Act: Senate Bill 1 (Speier & Burton) (August 26, 2003)
  • Poll: 91% Voter Support For Financial Privacy Initiative (February 10, 2003)
  • Full-Page Ad Distorts Facts about SB 773, California Financial Privacy Bill (August 26, 2002)
  • San Mateo Co. (California) Board of Supervisors Unanimously Adopts Financial Information Privacy Ordinance (August 6, 2002)
  • North Dakota Votes for "Opt-In" Financial Privacy (June 21, 2002)
  • Confusing E-Mail about Opt-Out Number Sends the Wrong Message (July 25, 2001)
  • July 1st Privacy Notice Deadline is For Banks, Not Customers (June 25, 2001)
  • Financial Privacy Notices: Do They Really Want You to Know What They're Saying? (June 1, 2001)
  • New Privacy Rights May Be Buried in "Junk" Mail (March 26, 2001)

    • Speeches & Testimony

  • Oversight Hearing On Financial Privacy and the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Financial Services Modernization Act (September 20, 2002)
  • Interagency Proposal for Model Privacy Form under the Gramm-Leach Bliley Act (May 22, 2007)
  • Identity Theft Red Flags and Address Discrepancies under the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act of 2003 (September 18, 2006)
  • Comments to Federal Agencies Regarding the Use of Personal Medical Data by Financial Institutions (November 1, 2005)
  • Financial Literacy and Education Campaign Strategies (November 1, 2004)
  • Comments on FACTA Disposal Rule, RIN 3064-AC77: Fair and Accurate Credit Transaction Act Disposal of Consumer Report Information and Records (July 22, 2004)
  • Comments on the FACT Act Document Disposal Rule Submitted to the National Credit Union Administration (July 12, 2004)
  • Comments on FACTA Disposal Rule: Disposal of Consumer Report Information and Records (June 15, 2004)
  • Comments Regarding the Use of Personal Medical Data by Financial Institutions (May 24, 2004)
  • Federal Agencies' Joint Request for Comment: Alternative Forms of Privacy Notices (March 26, 2004)
  • Financial Privacy Notices: Shorter is Better (February 25, 2004)
  • Groups Submit Comments to National Banks Agency Opposing Preemption of States (September 26, 2003)
  • 2001: The GLB Odyssey -- We're Not There Yet: How Consumers Rial Privacy Notices and Recommendations for Improving Them (December 4, 2001)
  • Financial Privacy: The Shortcomings of the Federal Financial Services Modernization Act (September 15, 2000)
  • Opt-In to Financial Privacy (May 1, 2000)
  • Consumers' Financial Privacy Act Testimony (April 24, 2000)
  • Comments of the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse and the Utility Consumers' Action Network on Proposed Privacy of Consumer Financial Information Regulations (Gramm-Leach Bliley Act) (March 30, 2000)
  • Letter to California Legislators and Governor Gray Davis by 15 Consumer-related Organizations in Favor of Strong Opt-in Financial Privacy Legislation (March 23, 2000)
  • Consumers' Concerns about Financial Privacy and Security (October 19, 1998)
  • Comments to California Department of Insurance Concerning Privacy of Personal Financial and Medical Record Information  (June 19, 2002)

    • Contributed Articles

  • Phishing: A Real-Life Experiment with Troubling Results (February 9, 2007)
  • Lost in the Fine Print: Readability of Financial Privacy Notices (Hochhauser) (July 1, 2001)

    • Sample Letters

  • Opt Out Sample of Sharing Financial Information Letter