Date: Wed, 13 Oct 1999 23:15:12 -0400 (EDT)
Message-Id: <199910140315.XAA24234@mattababy.mit.edu>
From: belmonte@mit.edu (Matthew Belmonte)
To: CapuanoHR8@aol.com
Subject: HR 10 privacy safeguards

Dear Representative Capuano

On 28 June and 1 July I wrote to urge your support for the Markey Amendment and
the Paul-Barr-Campbell Financial Privacy Amendment to HR 10.  As you know, the
current versions of HR 10 and S 900 would remove barriers between banks,
securities dealers, and insurance companies without replacing those barriers
with strong guarantees of customers' privacy.  The two bills are now in a
conference committee, and I hope that the final version will include strong
limits on the trading of customer information -- limits of the sort that would
have been provided by the Markey and Paul-Barr-Campbell amendments.

I never heard from you after I last wrote you about this issue.  Your 
membership in the House Committee on Banking and Financial Services gives you
an especial hand in the outcome of this bill, and I hope that you'll consider
its privacy implications very seriously.