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Agency Announces Settlement of Separate Actions Against Retailer TJX, and Data Brokers Reed Elsevier and Seisint for Failing to Provide Adequate Security for Consumers’ Data

ValueClick to Pay $2.9 Million to Settle FTC Chargest

[Goal Financial] Student Lender Settles FTC Charges That It Failed to Safeguard Sensitive Consumer Information and Misrepresented Its Security Practices

Financial Privacy Rule: Interagency Notice Research Project

Protecting Personal Information: A Guide for Business
Financial Privacy
Pretexting: News Room

3/20/03
Deceptive Mortgage Scam Halted

1/17/03
FTC Charges Telemarketing Network with Selling Bogus Advance-Fee Credit Card Packages

11/13/02
Federal, State, and Local Law Enforcers Tackle Deceptive Spam and Internet Scams

8/18/02
FTC Files Suit Against Massive Telemarketing Fraud Operation

3/8/02
Information Brokers Settle FTC Charges

10/4/01
FTC Chairman Timothy J. Muris Announces Aggressive, Pro-Consumer Privacy Agenda

4/18/01
As Part of “Operation Detect Pretext” FTC Sues to Halt “Pretexting”

1/31/01
FTC Kicks Off “Operation Detect Pretext”

6/27/00
Information Brokers Settle FTC Charges
This case was based on Section 5 of the FTC Act

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