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Can RFID technology chip away at your privacy?
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Practice Safe Habits Online! While you can make new friends through social networking sites, you may also be exposed to embarrassing situations and people who have bad intentions, such as hackers, identity thieves, con artists, and predators. Protect yourself by taking some common-sense precautions, brought to you by the National Consumers League and the National Cyber Security Alliance. Read more

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Health Care Communications Provided by Pharmacies: Best Practice Principles for Safeguarding Patient Privacy (PDF)

Invasion of the ID Snatchers. While ID theft can take many complex forms, the essence of this crime is simple—someone steals personal information about you to use for fraudulent purposes. Learn more here.

Financial Privacy: Just How Personal Is Your Personal Information?

Online Essentials. The Internet is a great place to get information, communicate with others, and shop. But how do you know what happens to the information you send through cyberspace?

Stop Calling Me! Tired of telemarketing calls, junk mail, and spam? It's hard to avoid them completely, and there may be opportunities you really want to hear about. But it is possible to reduce the amount of unwanted offers you receive.

Groups Unite in Call for Action against Phishing Scams (03.16.2006)

NCL's New Report (pdf)
additional slides for report

My Health Privacy

Advocacy

Comments to FTC on Behavioral Marketing (11.16.2007)

Are Banks Doing Enough to Protect Their Customers? Read Susan's Grant Speech to the OCC (10.16.2007)

Privacy Best Practices for Deployment of RFID Technology (05.01.2006)
Comments: To FCC regarding Customer Proprietary Network Information (04.14.2006)

Groups Unite in Call for Action against Phishing Scams (03.16.2006)

NCL's New Report (pdf)

Letter:  A Policy Framework for Effective ID Theft Legislation (11.09.2005)
Rules and Regulations Implementing the Telephone Consumer
Protection Act of 1991 (TCPA)
(07.29.2005)
Children’s Advocates Ask Congress to Investigate Marketing of Mobile Phones to Kids (07.26.2005)

Comments to the Dept. of Homeland Security regarding the Homeland Operations Security Database and privacy issues

Comments: NCL to FDIC Concerning the FDIC Study “Putting an End to Account-Hijacking and Identity Theft” (02.17.2005)

Speech:  FDIC Identity Theft SymposiumFighting Back Against Phishing and Account-Hijacking (02.11.2005)

Comments: NCL to FTC Regarding Prerecorded Message EBR Telemarketing (01.07.2005)
Testimony on Patient Privacy Considerations in Electronic Prescribing before the National Committee on Vital & Health Statistics, Subcommittee on Privacy & Confidentiality (11.18.2004)

Comments: NCL to FTC Regarding CAN-SPAM Rulemaking (09.10.2004)

Comments: NCL to FTC Regarding the CAN-SPAM Act Rulemaking (04.20.2004)

Comments: NCL to FTC Regarding CAN-SPAM Rulemaking (04.09.2004)

Comments: Do Not Email Registry (03.31.2004)

Comments: NCL to FCC Regarding the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act of 2003 (04.30.2003)

Comments:  NCL to FTC Regarding Telemarketing Rulemaking (04.24.2003)

Coalition: NCL joins Privacy Coalition (2003)

Comments:  Telemarketing Sales Rule (04.12.2002)

Letter: Letter to Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Chairman Timothy Muris (07.17.2001)

Comments: Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue: implementation of safe harbor agreement- (05.2001)

Letter: Privacy Coalition to President-elect Bush, Congressional Leadership, Members of the FTC and the FCC, National Association of Attorney Generals (NAAG), National Governors Association (NGA)

Speech: NCL President Linda Golodner gives speech at FDA Science Forum on Consumer Protection and Privacy in the Era of Advancing Gene Therapy (01.2001)Petition to federal agencies charged with rulemaking under the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act to ask that financial privacy rules be strengthened

Letter to government financial regulators condemning a possible delay in enforcement of the privacy provisions of the new Financial Modernization law from November 2000 to July 2001 (05.2000)

Comments: Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue: privacy concerns about merger between AOL and Time Warner(02.2000)

Comments: Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue: children's privacy (04.1999)