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Financial Privacy

Pretexting: Reports & Testimony

REPORTS

Since 2000, the Commission has submitted annual reports to Congress regarding its enforcement of the anti-pretexting provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act:

2002
Third Annual Report to Congress

2001
Second Annual Report to Congress

2000
First Annual Report to Congress

To the United States House of Representatives

To the United States Senate

TESTIMONY

Both before and after passage of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Commission officials have testified before Congress about the practice of pretexting and its potential harms:

2/8/06
Protecting Consumers’ Phone Records
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented Lydia B. Parnes, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, before Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance U.S. Senate

2/1/06
Phone Records for Sale: Why Aren�t Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Jon Leibowitz, Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission, before the Committee on Energy and Commerce U.S. House of Representatives

Internet Fraud
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Eileen Harrington, Associate Director of the Division of Marketing Practices, before the Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives

4/22/99
Financial Identity Theft
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, before the Subcommittee on Telecommunications, Trade, and Consumer Protection and the Subcommittee on Finance and Hazardous Materials of the Committee on Commerce, United States House of Representatives

7/28/98
Obtaining Confidential Financial Information by Pretexting
Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission, presented by Commissioner Mozelle W. Thompson before the Committee on Banking and Financial Services, United States House of Representatives