Lydia B. Parnes

Former Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection

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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)

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