North Dakota Voters Reject 'opt-out' Law

dakota_kid writes "Congratulations to the North Dakotans at protectourprivacy.net! They succeeded in convincing more than 70% of North Dakota voters to repeal a law that allowed banks and other financial institutions to share (read sell) a customer's private information unless the customer contacts each institution and 'opts-out'. This effectively requires these institutions to obtain the permission of their customers before sharing their personal information, e.g., getting them to 'opt-in'. I know most people don't pay much attention to the activities of North Dakota, and perhaps bank privacy laws, but most of the United States has similar laws, and because of what the North Dakota voters did yesterday, civil rights activists in other states my follow suite. So, if that's you, get to work, you can do it!"

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All 600,000 residents are now protected! Actually, having lived in ND for a year and half, it's surprising that this actually happened. They ran ads trying to scare people saying it would keep business out of the state, and I've noticed that people there tend to believe everything they see on TV, and are very concerned about bringing more business to the state.

Of course, it's not privacy laws that are going to keep business out, it's the flatness, the lack of activities, and the high cost of getting a fat pipe that's keeping business away. Not to mention that if a business needs some piece of equipment in a hurry, it will take a couple days to ship it there since it's doubtful that it's available locally. I don't miss living there one bit, but it's good that they actually repealed this evil law.