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IP: Financial Privacy Victory in North Dakota
From: Dave Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 12:34:41 +0900
------ Forwarded Message From: BSteinhardt <BSteinhardt () aclu org> Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 20:24:48 -0400 To: Dave Farber <farber () cis upenn edu> Subject: Financial Privacy Victory in North Dakota Dave, We earned a rather remarkable victory in North Dakota yesterday, when better than 70% of the electorate voted to reinstate the nation's strongest state financial privacy law. North Dakota law once again requires that bank customers give permission (opt-in) before their sensitive financial information can be sold. This despite the fact that our pro-privacy coalition was outspent , at least, 6 to 1 by the banks. Here is an excerpt from the ACLU statement. The full statement is available at http://www.aclu.org/news/2002/n061202a.html. Barry Steinhardt NEW YORK--The American Civil Liberties Union today congratulated the people of North Dakota for defending their privacy by rejecting a ballot measure that would have allowed banks to share customers' information without their permission. "This vote was a stunning defeat for the powerful financial companies who were trying to bamboozle the citizens of North Dakota into acting against their own interests," said Jennifer Ring, Executive Director of the ACLU of the Dakotas. ... "The results in North Dakota are significant not just in that state but nationally," said Barry Steinhardt, Director of the ACLU's Technology and Liberty Program. "If the voters in a small midwestern state vote for privacy by more than a three-to-one margin despite an intense media campaign urging them not to, then politicians in Washington and Sacramento and Albany ought to be listening." ''''' The pro-privacy campaign was waged by a group of citizen-volunteers led by Charlene Nelson, a homemaker and mother of three working out of her home in Casselton. Until a last-minute $25,000 contribution by the ACLU for radio ads, the privacy forces had reported donations of just $2,450 ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------------- ------ End of Forwarded Message
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