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04/13/05, By William Jackson, GCN Staff

Capitol Hill support is growing for regulation of data brokers in the wake of several high-profile identity thefts from companies that maintain large databases of sensitive personal information.

"I believe there will be some very firm federal regulations coming out of this issue," Sen. Arlen Specter (R-Pa.) said during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing today.

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Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) said he would reintroduce his Data Mining Reporting Act, which would require agencies to report to Congress about their data mining of public databases.

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