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June 2007

• Promoting Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs)
• RFID tags
• Children’s privacy issues
• Advertising Codes of Conduct
• Definition of personal data
• Data Protection focuses on national implementation
• Applicable law
• Revision of ICC/ESOMAR International Code
• Developing the ISO Standard on Access Panels
• Research Government Affairs and the 2007 US Congress
• US Legislative Update

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Public Policy Update - June 2007

The latest initiatives on data protection and privacy

10. Research Government Affairs and the 2007 US Congress

By Diane Bowers, CASRO President

Federal Privacy Legislation 

Potentially important legislation to CASRO has been offered in the Senate. While a comprehensive privacy/data security bill has not yet been reintroduced, Senator Mark Pryor has introduced three bills on more specific issues:

• S. 806, the Consumer Identity Protection and Security Act, which would allow consumers to put a security freeze on their financial information;
• S. 780, the Consumer Phone Record and Security Act, which would ban the acquisition of private phone information;
• S. 781, the Do Not Call Reauthorization Act, which would reauthorize the collection of fees from telemarketers by the Federal Trade Commission to maintain and operate the Do Not Call Registry. The FTC’s current authority expires at the end of the year. 

Other Federal Legislation

Push Polling: Congressman Tom Petri has reintroduced HR 1298, the Push Poll Disclosure Act of 2007, which would ban the practice of push polling. Last year we were able to secure a commitment from Congressman Petri’s Chief of Staff to work with CASRO to ensure that his legislation did not impact legitimate survey research. Given that the text of the legislation is identical, we expect that the same commitment holds true this year. 

Consumer Protection: The House Energy & Commerce Committee introduced three bills as part of National Consumer Protection Week in February:

• HR 936, the Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act, which would prohibit pretexting of phone records;
• HR 948, the Social Security Number Protection Act, which protects individuals from the sale and purchase of social security numbers;
• HR 964, the Securely Protect Yourself Against Cyber Trespass Act, which would protect Internet users from unknowing transmission of personally-identifiable information through spyware programs.

CASRO’s Government & Public Affairs committee, working with our lobbyists in Washington, D.C., are working to ensure that the language of these bills will not negatively affect current research practices and are consistent with industry self-regulatory standards.

More information

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