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Congress Must Strengthen Financial Privacy Laws, ACLU Says (03/04/1999)
The "Know Your Customer" proposal would require banks to create profiles of all their customers and monitor all of a customer's transactions to determine if any are unusual and therefore "suspicious." Those transactions would then be reported to the federal government. The regulations would vastly expand current bank reporting practices. 

ACLU of Florida Renews Call For Repeal of Law Permitting Sale of Photos and Personal Data from Driver's License Files (02/18/1999)
MIAMI--The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida today renewed its call for the repeal of the 1998 amendment to a transportation bill that permitted the sale of personal data on millions of Floridians.

Citing Continuing Privacy Threats, ACLU Calls for Hearings on Government Databases (02/18/1999)
WASHINGTON--Following revelations that the U.S. Secret Service funded a private company's efforts to develop a national database of driver's license photographs, the American Civil Liberties Union today called on the government to protect -- not prostitute -- Americans' privacy.

ACLU Seeks Halt to Sale of Pictures and Personal Data on 14 Million Floridians (01/29/1999)
MIAMI--The American Civil Liberties Union of Florida announced today that it will ask Governor Jeb Bush and the Florida Legislature to repeal a 1997 state law that permits the Florida Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) to sell photographs and personal information on nearly 14 million Florida citizens to private companies. The information comes from drivers licenses and state identification cards.