Lydia B. Parnes

Former Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection

Speeches, Articles, and Statements

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Behavioral Advertising – Before the Committee On Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate (July 2008)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On The Impact of Credit-Based Insurance Scoring on the Availability and Affordability of Insurance – Before the Subcommittee On Oversight and Investigations of the Committee On Financial Services, United States House of Representatives (May 2008)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Improving Consumer Protections In Subprime Lending – Before the Subcommittee On Interstate Commerce, Trade, and Tourism of the Committee On Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate (April 2008)
• Remarks, ABA Breakfast with the Bureau Directors (March 2008)
• Remarks of Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission – 51st Annual FDLI & FDA Conference (March 2008)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Consumer Protection In Financial Services: Subprime Lending and Other Financial Services – Before the Subcommittee on Financial Services and General Government of the Committee on Appropriations, United States House of Representatives (February 2008)
• Who's In Control Now: Navigating Tumultuous Marketing Change – Luncheon Remarks, PMA 29th Annual Promotion Marketing Law Conference (November 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On "Enhancing FTC Consumer Protection in Financial Dealings, With Telemarketers, and On the Internet" – Before the Subcommittee On Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (October 2007)
• Remarks of Lydia Parnes – American National Standards Institute Conference on Building Consumer Confidence (September 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Commission Enforcement of the Anti-Fraud Provisions of the Telemarketing Sales Rule; the Requirements of the National Do Not Call Registry; and the Credit Repair Organizations Act – Before the Committee On Commerce, Science and Transportation, United States Senate (July 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Home Mortgage Disclosure Act Data and FTC Lending Enforcement – Before the Subcommittee On Oversight and Investigations of the Committee On Financial Services, United States House of Representatives (July 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Credit Reports: Consumers' Ability To Dispute And Change Inaccurate Information – Before the Committee On Financial Services of the United States House of Representatives (June 2007)
• Remarks of Lydia B. Parnes – ABA Spring Meeting Breakfast with the Bureau Directors (April 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Identity Theft: Innovative Solutions For An Evolving Problem – Before the Subcommittee On Terrorism, Technology and Homeland Security of the Senate Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate (March 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Combating Pretexting: H.R. 936, Prevention of Fraudulent Access to Phone Records Act – Before the Committee On Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (March 2007)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Marketing Violent Entertainment to Children: Self-Regulation and Industry Practices in the Video Game Industry – Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce, United States House of Representatives (June 2006)
• Remarks Before the 16th Annual Conference on Computers, Freedom and Privacy – Federal Trade Commission (May 2006)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Subcommittee on Consumer Affairs, Product Safety, and Insurance of the Committee on Commerce, Science, and Transportation, United States Senate – Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Consumers' Phone Records (February 2006)
• Remarks of Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission – Before the Association of National Advertisers (January 2006)
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Subcommittee on Financial Institutions and Consumer Credit of the Committee on Financial Services, United States House of Representative – Enhancing Data Security: The Regulators' Perspective (May 2005)
• Remarks of Lydia B. Parnes Acting Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, Federal Trade Commission – The International Association of Privacy Professionals (March 2005)
• The FTC and Consumer Privacy: Onward and Upward – Remarks before the IAPP (October 2004)