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1 CIS H 40162
TITLE: H.R. 4049, To
Establish the Commission for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy
Protection
CIS-NO: 2001-H401-62
SOURCE: Committee on
Government Reform. House
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve
the full text of testimony
DATE: May 15, 16, 2000
LENGTH: iii+227 p.
CONG-SESS: 106-2
ITEM-NO: 1016-A;
1016-B
SUDOC: Y4.G74/7:C73/38
GPO-STOCK-NO:
552-070-26870-7.
SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No.
106-204. Hearings before the Subcom on Government Management,
Information, and Technology to consider H.R. 4049 (text, p.
2-14), the Privacy Commission Act, to establish a Commission
for the Comprehensive Study of Privacy Protection to study
issues related to the protection of individual privacy and
appropriate uses of personal information by Federal, State,
local, and private entities, and to recommend legislative and regulatory changes
to improve the security of personal information.
Supplementary material (p. 204-227 and throughout) includes submitted
statements, correspondence, and a witness's written statement.
CONTENT-NOTATION: Personal info
privacy protection commission study estab
BILLS: 106
H.R. 4049
DESCRIPTORS:
SUBCOM ON GOVERNMENT MANAGEMENT,
INFORMATION, AND TECHNOLOGY. HOUSE; RIGHT OF
PRIVACY; FEDERAL ADVISORY BODIES; GOVERNMENT REORGANIZATION;
GOVERNMENT INFORMATION AND INFORMATION SERVICES;
INFORMATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; COMMISSION FOR THE
COMPREHENSIVE STUDY OF PRIVACY PROTECTION;
PRIVACY COMMISSION ACT
01-H401-62 TESTIMONY NO: 1
May 15, 2000 p. 17-54, 60-83
WITNESSES (and
witness notations):
SPOTILA, JOHN T. (Administrator,
Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, OMB)
VEATOR, DAVID L. (General Counsel, Massachusetts Office of
Consumer Affairs and Business Regulation)
HATCH, MIKE
(Attorney General, Minnesota)
STONE, ROBERT (Executive
Vice President, American Healthways, Inc)
STATEMENTS AND
DISCUSSION:
Differing perspectives on H.R. 4049, with
recommendations; feared adverse impact of H.R. 4049 on expeditious enactment of
privacy protection legislation; views on State role in
privacy protection initiatives; suggestions for
privacy protection of health care information,
including concerns that legislative protections might impede appropriate use of
personal health information.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Personal info privacy protection
commission study estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
MINNESOTA ATTORNEY GENERAL'S OFFICE; OFFICE OF MANAGEMENT
AND BUDGET; STATE GOVERNMENTS; MEDICAL REGULATION; HEALTH
FACILITIES AND SERVICES
01-H401-62 TESTIMONY NO: 2
May 16, 2000 p. 115-205
WITNESSES (and witness
notations):
BELAIR, ROBERT R. (Editor,
Privacy and American Business)
CULNAN,
MARY J. (Professor, McDonough School of Business, Georgetown University)
VARNEY, CHRISTINE A. (attorney, representing Online
Privacy Alliance)
SINGLETON, SOLVEIG
(Director, Information Studies, Cato Institute)
PLESSER, RONALD L. (former General Counsel,
Privacy Protection Study Commission)
SOKUL, STANLEY S. (former Member, Advisory Commission on
Electronic Commerce)
MARKEY, EDWARD J. (Rep, D-Mass)
GREENWOOD, JAMES C. (Rep, R-Pa)
STATEMENTS
AND DISCUSSION:
Differing perspectives on H.R. 4049, with
recommendations; reasons for H.R. 4049, including need to address
privacy issues raised by the Internet; suggestions for role of
proposed commission in privacy protection initiative.
Details on experiences of 1975-77 Privacy
Protection Study Commission, established by the Privacy Act of
1974; recommendations regarding privacy commission activities
and procedures, based on experiences of the Advisory Commission on Electronic
Commerce, which studied Internet commerce taxation issues; elaboration on
privacy issues.
CONTENT NOTATION:
Personal info privacy protection
commission study estab
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
ONLINE PRIVACY ALLIANCE; INTERNET;
PRIVACY PROTECTION STUDY COMMISSION; PRIVACY
ACT; ADVISORY COMMISSION ON ELECTRONIC COMMERCE; TAXATION
LOAD-DATE: January 31, 2002 
