Political Quotes

“another major security breach involving the personal ID theft of 180,000 GM and MasterCard credit card holders should wake up Congress to deliver tough national standards for protecting Americans against ID theft. But this recent outbreak of 180,000 GM and MasterCard credit holders' ID is on the heels of Choice Point, Bank of America and Lexus-Nexus and shows there are too many fraud artists posing as individual businesses and too many individual consumers whose identity is now being stolen and used against them. According to the Privacy Rights Center, up to 10 million Americans are victims of ID theft each year. They have a right to be notified when their most sensitive health data is stolen. In response to this problem, there have been bipartisan solutions offered to address it. The gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Bean), the gentleman from Illinois (Mr. Gutierrez), the gentlewoman from New York (Ms. Slaughter), and I have introduced the Notification of Risk to Personal Data Act as one piece of legislation. Our legislation requires consumers to be immediately notified when their personal data has been stolen or acquired by an unauthorized person and imposes tough new penalties on violators. Mr. Speaker, Americans want, need, and rightfully expect Congress to protect them from the prying eyes of identity thieves and give them back control of their Social Security numbers and personal health information. ____________________”