1.   Relatedly, it afforded the wife no financial privacy.

2.   But his deputy press secretary, Hilary McLean, said the governor was in favor of financial privacy and was hoping to get legislation passed that would protect it.

3.   California Gov. Gray Davis was also nominated for opposing workplace and financial privacy legislation.

4.   Federal regulators in general and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. in particular are reportedly being deluged with letters from angry citizens protesting this threat to their financial privacy.

5.   If the Legislature fails to take action this year, consumer advocates say they will begin researching and writing a statewide ballot initiative to protect financial privacy.

6.   Indeed, consumer discontent about violations of financial privacy have grown so strong that Congress took a step late Thursday night toward circumscribing how banks do business.

7.   North Dakota voters on Tuesday will be the first in the country to make their own choice about how to regulate financial privacy.

8.   Sen. Christopher Dodd, D-Conn., has been leading a push in Congress for greater financial privacy restrictions.

9.   That spells consent, but I pressed him on legislation to protect financial privacy, where his administration has been weak.

10.   The financial privacy plan is the latest in a series of efforts by the Clinton administration to strengthen the privacy rights of consumers and medical patients.