U.S. Treasury survey on financial information sharing

Published Friday, 10 May 2002 2:34AM CST by in Privacy

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Joanna Glasner reports in a Wired article that the U.S. citizenry is plenty grumpy about a recent law—the Financial Modernization Act of 1999—that requires them to opt-out if they want to prevent financial institutions from sharing their personal information.

Opt-out notices buried in junk mail, confusing legalese, and potentially invasive sales tactics are the specific problems most cited in a survey conducted by the U.S. Treasury’s Office of Thrift Supervision over the past two months.

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