Victims of identity theft could freeze their credit reports, if data security legislation approved by a House committee continues to garner support. Last week, the House Committee on Financial Services marked-up and approved H.R. 3997, the Financial Data Protection act. The data security bill, which now awaits a vote by the full House, would expand the data safeguards requirements of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley and Fair Credit Reporting acts to establish uniform standards for all businesses that