Legal Resources

Exploring Privacy: A Roundtable Series [Workshop]

March 17, 2010

A 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, 2009

Series 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, 2004

Report 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, 2003

Workshop 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, 2003

Report 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, 2002

Workshop 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, 2002

Report 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, 2001

Workshop 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, 2001

Workshop 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, 2001

Report 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.