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Alaska Law Loaded with Identity Theft Protections
Posted on Jun 13, 2008 by Tom Fragala
Alaska has a new identity theft law with protections including privacy of SSN's, credit freezes and data breach disclosures.
Alaska’s HB 65 restricts the request, collection, sale, and sharing of Social Security numbers by both private parties and government agencies. The new law contains limited exceptions for specific purposes such as for insurance, medical services, fraud prevention, law enforcement, or when the use of Social Security numbers is required by law.
HB 65 also gives consumers the right to freeze or lock access to their credit files against anyone trying to open up a new account for credit or services in their name.
Alaska’s new law, which passed with bipartisan support, contains other protections aimed at reducing identity theft, including a requirement that businesses notify consumers of data security breaches, a new court procedure to enable victims of identity theft to remove criminal charges from their records that stem from the conduct of the identify thief, and rules for how sensitive information must be treated when it is discarded.
Read more at ConsumersUnion.
Filed under: Identity Theft, Privacy
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