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Markey on Offshoring of Personal Information

By: Ed Markey
By: Ed Markey
Date: May 4, 2004
Issues: Technology and Communication Civil Liberties and Civil Rights


Statement of Rep. Markey on Offshoring of Personal Information

In Response to IRS and PCAOB Correspondence

May 4, 2004

"While I'm still awaiting responses to the letters I sent to federal financial and healthcare regulators
about the impact of offshoring on consumer privacy, the responses that I've received so far from the
IRS and the PCAOB are quite troubling. They would seem to suggest that when a consumer's
personal information is offshored, the consumer's privacy enters a regulatory black hole. For this
reason, I am now preparing legislation aimed at closing the offshoring privacy loopholes, which I
expect to introduce shortly."

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