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To: long-gone who wrote (67184)	4/6/2001 8:24:53 AM
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Fellow Gold Lovers, They are trying another end-run, like the ludicrous banking law we helped to defeat last year, by taking our medical privacy away from us. Do you want the federal government to have access to your records? ""The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published new regulations that would require health care providers to turn your medical records over to the federal government -- which could then share them with third parties such as private marketers, police agencies, and even foreign governments."" Please do something about it! Go to the site below and help STOP this stupid invasion of our privacy. Thanks, TS! =========================================================== PRIVACY NEWS UPDATE =========================================================== You are receiving this update because you registered at DefendYourPrivacy.com, the site that was instrumental in killing the FDIC's Know Your Customer regulation in 1999. We are writing to inform you about another immediate threat to your privacy -- this time to your medical record privacy. However, if you do not want to receive further updates, please use the unsubscribe directions at the end of this message. =========================================================== More than 25,000 rush to sign online petition for medical privacy Dear Friends: Here's a brief update on the campaign to stop the new HHS Medical Privacy rule, which would allow the government to seize control over your private medical records and transfer them to "third parties." (1) As of 6:28pm on Wednesday, April 4, a total of 25,507 Americans had signed the petition. (Check out our new real- time display on the site defendyourprivacy.com) That's an average of 59 e-mails per Congressional office! Here's the significance of those 25,507 e-mails: According to our sources on Capitol Hill, it took two months for the HHS to receive 5,000 comments about the rule via snail mail. (The arrogant bureaucrats refused to accept comments by e-mail!) Yet in just 7 days, Congress has received more than five times as many from our campaign! Is this why e-mail has been called "the musket of the 21st century?" If you haven't sent a message to your Congressman yet, please visit defendyourprivacy.com and sign the online petition. You can also include your personal comment about this latest assault on your privacy. (2) WorldNetDaily.com columnist endorses our petition. WorldNetDaily.com columnist Geoff Metcalf endorsed our petition in his April 2 column. Metcalf said: "Don't give them that permission by your silence. What can you do? It's easy. Go to DefendYourPrivacy.com and sign the petition. It will be submitted directly to your representative in the U.S. House and to both your U.S. senators. "Allow me to recommend that we support the adoption of H. J. RES. 38, which would prevent these regulations from going into effect." The complete column is linked to the Media Coverage page at defendyourprivacy.com (3) Just 9 days until the deadline: Now let's pour it on! By April 14, HHS Secretary Tommy Thompson must decide whether to impose the rule, revise it, or repeal it. Why not invite everyone you know who has not yet visited the site to send an e-mail to Congress by going to the site? Another avalanche of e-mail just might be enough to bury this regulation once and for all. If you haven't signed yet, please do it immediately. Then refer your friends to the site. Thank you again for your support of defendyourprivacy.com =============================================================== TO UNSUBSCRIBE: mailto:privacy-news-request@columbia.lp.org?body=unsubscribe Or, if the above method doesn't work with your software, please send an e-mail FROM THE ACCOUNT SUBSCRIBED to the mailing list to: privacy-news-request@columbia.lp.org and in the body of the message type only the word "unsubscribe" (without the quotes) IF YOU HAVE A QUESTION that requires an answer, YOU MUST mailto:info@defendyourprivacy.com Replies to the List Manager or to the list itself will be deleted by our mailing list management software. ===============================================================