!!! Overview
[{$pagename}] of [1978|Year 1978] ([RFPA]; codified at 12 [U.S.C.] ch. 35, § 3401 et seq.) is a [United States] [Act of Congress] that that gives the customers of [Financial Institutions] the right to some level of [privacy] from [Government Entity] searches.
[{$pagename}] permits the [Federal Bureau of Investigation] could obtain records with a [National Security Letter] ([NSL]) only if the [FBI] could first demonstrate the person was a foreign power or an agent of a foreign power. Compliance by the recipient of the [NSL] was voluntary, and [US States]' consumer [privacy] [laws] often allowed [Financial Institutions] to decline the requests. [{$pagename}] was amended [1986|Year 1986], [United States Congress] amended [{$pagename}] to allow the government to compel disclosure of the requested information. The [United States PATRIOT Act] of 2001 amended the RFPA.

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