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1. Federal Privacy Laws
Identity Theft and Financial Fraud

2. Driver’s Privacy Protection Act of
1994

The Driver’s Privacy Protection Act
puts limits on disclosures of personal
information in records maintained by
state departments of motor vehicles.

3. Family Educational Rights and
Privacy Act of 1974

The Family Education Rights and
Privacy Act puts limits on the
disclosure of educational records
maintained by agencies and
institutions that receive federal
funding.

4. Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act of 1999
The Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (Pub. L. 106-102,
113 Stat. 1338) includes a Financial Privacy
Rule, which requires financial institutions to
provide consumers with a privacy notice when
the consumer relationship is established and
annually thereafter.
 The privacy notice must explain what information
the institution collects about the consumer, where
that information is shared, how it is used, and
how that information is protected.
 The notice must also identify the consumer’s
right to opt out of the information being shared
with unaffiliated parties and notify him or her if
the privacy policy changes.


5. Health Information Portability and
Accountability Act of 1996

The privacy rule regulates the security
and confidentiality of patient
information. The U.S. Department of
Health and Human Services published
a final Security Rule in February 2003,
which sets national standards for
protecting the confidentiality, integrity,
and availability of electronic protected
health information.

6. Compiled and designed by Mark Fullbright , Certified
Identity Theft Risk Management Specialist™
(CITRMS) as a free service for consumers to protect
themselves online and reduce their exposure to
identity theft
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