Unauthorized Access to Individual Medical Records: Hearing Before the Subcommittee on Civil and Constitutional Rights of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, Ninety-eighth Congress, Second Session, on H.R. 5831 ... August 9, 1984

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Page 1 - Any person (or corporation) who knowingly fails to report export sales pursuant to the requirements of this section shall be fined not more than $25,000 or imprisoned not more than one year, or both.
Page 2 - Whoever, having devised or intending to devise any scheme or artifice to defraud, or for obtaining money or property by means of false or fraudulent pretenses, representations, or promises...
Page 12 - I may to those presented earlier by my colleagues and ask that my full statement be entered into the record, and I will only touch upon a few brief points in my oral comments.
Page 4 - States entitled to receive it; (2) intentionally accesses a computer without authorization or exceeds authorized access, and thereby obtains (A) information contained in a financial record of a financial institution, or of a card issuer as defined in section 1602(n) of title 15, or contained in a file of a consumer reporting agency on a consumer, as such terms are defined in the Fair Credit Reporting Act...
Page 4 - Code. that the defendant had reason to believe that the information obtained could be used to injure the United States or to the advantage of any foreign nation; and (4) that the defendant willfully gave or attempted to give that information to anyone not entitled to receive it, or retained the information and in so doing prevented it from reaching an officer or employee of the United States entitled to receive...
Page 16 - Congress of the United States, Longworth House Office Building, Washington, DC DEAR...
Page 4 - ... or the loss created, although a second conviction of this offense would be punishable as a felony with up to ten years' imprisonment and an enhanced fine. As for the computer fraud offense, our most basic objection is that it does not track the language of the existing mail and wire fraud statutes so that the extensive body of law that has been developed interpreting these provisions can be applied to computer fraud.
Page 1 - Any item, collection or grouping of information about an individual that is maintained within a system of records and that contains the individual's name or an identifying number, symbol or other identifying particular assigned to the individual.
Page 1 - HR 5831, to penalize unauthorized direct access to or alteration of individual medical records through a telecommunications device; HR 1880, amended, Cigarette Safety Act.
Page 2 - This bill would penalize the unauthorized direct access to or alteration of individual medical records through a telecommunications device.

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