News Releases Concerning Privacy Cases

• TRUSTe Earns "Safe Harbor" Status
  Program Will Promote Children's Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance (05/23/01)
• Web Sites Warned to Comply With Children's Online Privacy Law (07/17/00)
• FTC Establishes Advisory Committee on Online Access and Security (12/16/99)
• New Rule Will Protect Privacy of Children Online: Effective April 2000, Certain Web Sites Must Obtain Parental Consent Before Collecting Personal Information from Children (10/20/99)
• FTC to Hold Public Workshop on Appropriate Methods to Obtain Parental Consent in Conjunction with Rulemaking on Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (06/23/99)
• Young Investor Website Settles FTC Charges: Agency Alleged Website Made False Promises About Collection of Personal Information from Children and Teens (05/06/99)
• FTC Testifies in Support of Federal Legislation Protecting Children's Online Privacy (09/23/98)
• Internet Site Agrees to Settle FTC Charges of Deceptively Collecting Personal Information in Agency's First Internet Privacy Case:
  Commission Establishes Strong Mechansims for Protecting Consumers' Privacy Online (08/13/98)
• Report to Congress on Privacy Online (06/4/98)
• FTC Staff to Survey Consumer Privacy on the Internet (02/26/98)
• Information Industry Voluntarily Agrees to Stronger Protections for Consumers, FTC Says (12/17/97)
• FTC Surfs Children's Web Sites to Review Privacy Practices (12/15/97)
• Privacy, Accuracy and Fairness of Sensitive Personal Information Enhanced for Consumers Under Amended Credit Reporting Statute (09/29/97)
• Privacy of Sensitive Financial Information Enhanced for Consumer Under Amended Credit Reporting Statute (09/25/97)
• Wait, Watch Closely and See Is Right Stance for Government on Privacy Issues for Electronic Payment Systems, Says FTC Official (09/18/97)
• FTC Outlines Steps for Commission Action on Consumer Privacy Issues in Letter to Congress (07/31/97)
• FTC Staff Sets Forth Principles For Online Information Collection From Children (07/16/97)
• Consumers' and Children's Privacy Online, Computer Databases, and Unsolicited E-Mail: To Be Explored at FTC Privacy Week - June 10-13 (06/4/97)
• FTC Announces Two Significant Efforts in Its Comprehensive Examination of Consumer Privacy (03/4/97)
• Consumer Privacy in the Online Marketplace Addressed in FTC Staff Report (01/6/97)
• FTC Workshop on Consumer Privacy in Cyberspace to Be Held in June 1996 (05/15/96)