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- Date: Wed, 23 Dec 92 10:41:25 CUT
- From: Dewey Coffman <ibmpa!vpdbox.austin.ibm.com!dewey@ibminet.awdpa.ibm.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.society.privacy
- Subject: CA Privacy Hotline
- Message-ID: <comp-privacy1.118.9@pica.army.mil>
- Organization: Computer Privacy Digest
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- X-Computer-Privacy-Digest: Volume 1, Issue 118, Message 9 of 9
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- This was forwarded to me by someone who's name has been lost.
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- California consumers who feel their privacy has been invaded now have a
- hotline to call to report their problem and receive helpful
- information. The California Privacy Rights Clearinghouse went on line
- this week at 1-800-773-7748. Gabriela Castelan reports...
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- Telemarketing calls, junk mail, eavesdroppers on cellular and cordless
- phones and problems with credit reporting agencies top the list of
- privacy concerns being reported to the new privacy hotline. Beth
- Givens is the project director of the hotline which is being operated
- by the University of San Diego's Center for Public Interest Law.
-
- "I think most of us hold our privacy pretty dear and with the great
- sophistication of computers and telecommunications and I must say the
- growing sophistication of them, I think more and more people are
- feeling that their losing control of their personal information. And
- what we want to do is be able to tell people how they can exert some
- influence about how information about them is used, and to some extent
- try to control how it's used."
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- The privacy hotline will compile caller complaints and report them to
- state lawmakers. This is Gabriela Castelan.
-
- Additional quote from Beth Givens (11/11/92)... "What we're going to
- do with all this information is at the end of the year analize the
- types of questions that we've gotten and the types of concerns that
- Californians are addressing to us and we will be looking at the
- existing laws and public utility commission regulations and we will be
- writing a policy report making recommendations about ways that people's
- privacy can be further protected through laws and regulations. And we
- will be addressing that report to the legislature and to the public
- utilities commission."
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