Privacy Tool Kit
The Gramm Leach Bliley Act, which modernizes Depression-era laws governing the kinds of activities that banks, securities firms, and insurance companies can engage in, also imposes new privacy protections. All financial services companies will be required to establish and disclose annually a privacy policy and provide customers with the ability to request that their information not be shared with other parties.
Below are documents that SIA has prepared as part of a "tool kit" to help member-firms educate their clients and employees about the new privacy protections. The contents of this site will be updated as Federal regulators implement the Act's provisions.
- Developing Your Privacy Policy: Issues to Consider
- Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act FAQs
- Employee/Client Newsletter Article
- Sample Op Ed
- Existing Privacy Laws
- Sample Stump Speech
- "The New Federal Financial Privacy Law: A Comprehensive Approach That Should Be Given Time to Work"
- Executive Summary of "The New Federal Financial Privacy Law: A Comprehensive Approach That Should Be Given Time to Work" -- 2/28/00
- "Personal Information in Financial Services: The Value of a Balanced Flow" by Professor Fred H. Cate, Indiana University School of Law
- Executive Summary "Personal Information in Financial Services: The Value of a Balanced Flow" by Professor Fred H. Cate, Indiana University School of Law
Biography
Professor Fred H. Cate of the Indiana School of Law is an internationally recognized authority on privacy and information law. He is a member of the Federal Trade Commission's Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security and author of the award-winning Privacy in the Information Age and The Internet and the First Amendment.