Among the bills Congress may take up this month, if national security and immigration issues don't overwhelm the entire agenda, is an alarming measure that would pre-empt state consumer laws designed to protect personal and financial data from identity thieves.
H.R. 3997 is euphemistically called the Financial Data Protection Act, which sounds like your personal information is going to be locked in a vault somewhere. But if lawmakers were more forthright, it would be called the Protect Banks and Data Brokers from Pesky State Privacy Laws Act.
http://www.voiceofsandiego.org/articles/2006/09/14/opinion/03hockmuthprotect.txt
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