Right to Financial Privacy Act

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Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978
Senate Committee on Banking, Housing and Urban Affairs
  • Passed the House on October 11, 1978 
  • Passed the Senate on October 12, 1978 
  • Agreed to by the House on October 14, 1978  and by the Senate on October 14, 1978 
  • Signed into law by President Jimmy Carter on November 10, 1978
    • Major amendments
    USA PATRIOT Act

    The Right to Financial Privacy Act of 1978 (RFPA; codified at 12 U.S.C. ch. 35, § 3401 et seq.) is a United States federal law, Title XI of the Financial Institutions Regulatory and Interest Rate Control Act of 1978, that gives the customers of financial institutions the right to some level of privacy from government searches.

    Before the Act was passed, the United States government did not have to tell customers that it was accessing their records, and customers did not have the right to prevent such actions. The Act came about after the

    United States Supreme Court held, in United States v. Miller 425 U.S. 435 (1976), that financial records are the property of the financial institution with which they are held, rather than the property of the customer.[1] Under the RFPA, the government must receive the consent of the customer before they can access said customer's financial information.[2] The Act prescribes statutory damages of $100 per violation, and a number of different violations can be aggregated in a class action.[3]

    Under the RFPA, the FBI could obtain records with a

    USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 amended the RFPA.[5]

    See also

    References

    1. ^ Denning, Brannon P. (1995–1996). "Can the Simple Be Trusted: Lower Court Interpretations of United States v. Miller and the Second Amendment". Cumberland Law Review. 26: 961.
    2. ^ Jones, Sarah Elizabeth (1988). "Right to Financial Privacy: Emerging Standards of Bank Compliance". Banking Law Journal. 105: 37–51.
    3. SSRN 1967184
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    4. Cornell L. Rev. 1201, 1207 (2007) [1]
    5. ^ "EPIC - the Right to Financial Privacy Act". epic.org. Retrieved May 29, 2010.

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