Announced Action for October 11, 2005

Commission testimony to Pennsylvania House of Representatives: On Tuesday, October 11, Betsy Broder, Assistant Director of the Division of Planning and Information in the FTC’s Bureau of Consumer Protection, presented Commission testimony on Identity Theft and Data Security to the Select Committee on Information Security of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives.

The Commission vote to approve the testimony was 4-0. (FTC File No. P054805. For previous Congressional testimony on identity theft and data security issues, see news releases
dated March 10, March 15, April 13, and May 18, 2005.)

Copies of the testimony are available from the FTC’s Web site at http://www.ftc.gov and also from the FTC’s Consumer Response Center, Room 130, 600 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20580. Call toll-free: 1-877-FTC-HELP.