Thoughts 14 Apr 2007 12:42 pm
A further note on AB478
Babs amended the bill and it came out of committee as: Amend Do not pass
Over on the Pioneer Loan Center Blog they found something I was unaware of.
AB 428 is being amended to make it illegal to obtain an individual’s personal data or even information on any transactions without permission of the person involved.
It’s a shame that federal law usually supercedes state law or the IRS would be sol.
At Pioneer they seem to think that the customer will have to sign a waiver allowing outside collectors access to the data.
We have federal laws about such things, but they seem to be rather nebulous and appear to lead to civil actions.
This law appears to be very specific and leads to criminal actions. This is a good thing as long as it isn’t so all encompassing as to force us to sign a waiver every time we use our creditcards.
I’m not an attorney and sometimes the law says something that is different from the way I read it. So now we wait for the courts to decide what it really says.
Something I heard a senator say, went to the effect. “We passed the legislation, now we’ll have to wait for the courts to tell us what it means.”
Scary ain’t it.