Legal Resources
Exploring Privacy: A Roundtable Series [Workshop]
March 17, 2010A series of roundtables exploring the privacy challenges posed by technologies and business practices that collect and use consumer data. Discussion included how best to protect consumer privacy while supporting beneficial uses of the information and technological innovation.
Best Practices for Business: Protecting Personal Information and Fighting Fraud with the Red Flags Rule
April 29, 2009Series of workshops that focused on how businesses can better secure personal information, implement best practices for developing an appropriate data security program, and respond to data breaches and other privacy and security threats.
Pretexting: GLB Act, Fourth Annual Report to Congress
July 2, 2004Report to Congress on the Commission's enforcement actions against companies that engage in pretexting – the practice of obtaining financial information from consumers under false pretenses.
Costs and Benefits Related To the Collection and Use of Consumer Information [Workshop]
June 18, 2003Workshop examining the costs and benefits to consumers and businesses of the collection and use of consumer information.
Pretexting: GLB Act, Third Annual Report to Congress
April 2, 2003Report to Congress on the Commission's enforcement actions against companies that engage in pretexting – the practice of obtaining financial information from consumers under false pretenses.
Consumer Information Security [Workshop]
May 20, 2002Workshop exploring issues related to the security of personal information stored on consumers' computers or by businesses.
Pretexting: GLB Act, Second Annual Report to Congress
May 3, 2002Report to Congress on the Commission's enforcement actions against companies that engage in pretexting – the practice of obtaining financial information from consumers under false pretenses.
Get Noticed: Effective Financial Privacy Notices - An Interagency Public Workshop
December 4, 2001Workshop about Gramm Leach Bliley Act privacy notices. Focused on identifying successful notices, strategies for communicating complex information, industry self-regulatory efforts and consumer and business education.
The Information Marketplace: Merging and Exchanging Consumer Data [Workshop]
March 13, 2001Workshop exploring how businesses merge and exchange detailed consumer information and how such information is used commercially. Discussion focused on how detailed consumer profiles are created and used by entities other than third-party Internet advertising networks.
Pretexting: GLB Act, First Annual Report to Congress
January 12, 2001Report to Congress on the Commission's enforcement actions against companies that engage in pretexting – the practice of obtaining financial information from consumers under false pretenses.