Clinton bill to regulate export of data overseas

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LAZARUS AT LARGE

Clinton bill to regulate export of data overseas

David Lazarus
Wednesday, May 19, 2004

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A pair of bills has been introduced in Congress that should give hope to all those concerned about their personal information being exported abroad.

On the Senate side, Hillary Rodham Clinton, D-N.Y., has emerged as a leading champion of privacy rights. Her bill, an amendment to S1637, would require U.S. companies to notify customers about any personal info going overseas and to allow customers to "opt out" from the practice.

Clinton's bill also would hold U.S. companies liable for the actions of their overseas contractors, thus providing consumers with a much-needed avenue of recourse should data go astray.

"I'm particularly concerned about medical and financial information," Clinton told me. "We are in danger of ceding much of our privacy."

minds of the people of this country - with identity theft being a real problem, the information being off-shored will have many ways of being "lost" or "mis-used".

but this is a helluva good start. And you're correct, it is a BIG ISSUE! :toast:

but doubt the repubs will let it out of committee

Wholeheartedly.

Since a data-entry worker in India tried to blackmail a Doctor here in the US over the information contained in "his" medical records.