Senate Approves Identity Theft Bills
from the the-government-actually-looking-out-for-our-rights? dept
Could it be that the Senate has actually passed some bills that support consumer's rights? Am I missing something? I'm so used to reading about bills that trample on users' rights in favor of corporation rights that I'm skeptical of bills that claim otherwise. The latest set includes a law on ID theft to make it much easier for a victim to combat the problem - by requiring companies to provide the proper information quickly and making credit agencies block all the ID theft info from credit reports. The second bill is a Social Security number protection bill that forbids the display, sale or purchase of Social Security numbers.
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