Privacy Issues - Commercial Privacy

Jane Bryant Quinn (Washington Post) Credit Reports #1 Credit Reports #2

Credit Reports and Auto Insurance

Credit Reports and Identity Theft

CNET Report-The Search for personal data

Canadian Site with many links

Privacy Sites centering on Government Surveillance

Network USA Covers fingerprinting, SSN, National IDs, drivers license pictures etc.

Current Events from above

The IRS and Credit Bureaus

Public Hearings on Credit-see box on right side

IRS and Credit Bureaus

Was your Report used in a sting operation?

Corporate Misdeeds

AdBusters- Home of "Joe Chemo"

Background Briefing: Big Brother Is Alive and Getting Bigger

Sites with uncomfortably close alliances to Credit Bureaus

National Fraud Info Center Careful. Reports of fraud or identity theft can protect businesses while harming the Victims credit even more.

Banking Magazine New products to keep track of our habits on the way

P&AB's Privacy & Business Previously sponsored by Equifax in an attempt to avoid gov't regulation. Now being used by corporations to fend off the "European Data Protection Act" along with their parent the Center for Social and Legal Research.

Student Loans

Student Loan Issues

Legal Advise on Student Loans

Student Loan Discussion

CNN Financial on Credit Reports and Student Loans

Misc

Fair Credit Reporting Act, as amended

Changes to the FCRA PIRG gives a good summary of changes to the law effective 9/30/97

Nolo Press Legal Self Help

Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs

The Skeptical Inquirer Asks the right questions about psuedosciences such as credit scoring. Remember Carl Sagan?

Hi Speed Photography

Hobo Spider Web Site

ACLU Defend Your Data Collection http://www.aclu.org