FTC Identifies Companies Selling Personal Information
The Federal Trade Commission has identified 200 firms that are collecting personal financial information and selling it others. The FTC's investigation, Operation Detect Pretext, focuses on the practice where a person poses as a real customer in order to gain information on others from financial institutions.FTC puts Web scammers on notice, Computerworld, January 31, 2001.
FTC Watches for Violations of Privacy Law, Washington Post, February 1, 2001.
