The FTC has provided congressional testimony on a wide range of technology-related issues. Links to relevant Commission testimony are provided below.

2007

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Concerning the October 2003 Commission Report on Competition and Patent Law and Policy, Presented by Suzanne Michel, Deputy Assistant Director for Policy and Coordination, Bureau of Competition, Before the Subcommittee on Courts, the Internet, and Intellectual Property of the Committee on the Judiciary, United States House of Representatives (February 15, 2007)
  

2006

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Sports Programming and Cable Distribution: The Comcast/Time Warner/Adelphia Transaction
  Michael Salinger, Director, Bureau of Economics, December 7, 2006
  
  
• Internet Data Brokers and Pretexting: Who Has Access to Your Private Records?
  Joel Winston, Associate Director of the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection,
  September 29, 2006
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Internet Governance: The Future of ICANN
  Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, September 20, 2006
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Public Access To WHOIS Databases
  Eileen Harrington, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, July 18, 2006
  
  
• “A Government Perspective on IP and Antitrust Law”
  Deborah Platt Majoras, Delivered at The IP Grab: the Struggle Between Intellectual Property Rights and Antitrust, American Antitrust Institute, Washington, DC, June 21, 2006
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On FTC Jurisdiction Over Broadband Internet Access Services, Presented by Commissioner William E. Kovacic Before the Committee on the Judiciary, United States Senate, June 14, 2006
  
  
• Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
  Commissioner Pamela Jones Harbour, June 2006
  
  
• Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection of the Committee on Energy and Commerce
  Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, May 2006
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Protecting Consumers' Phone Records
  Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection,February 1, 2006
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Phone Records for Sale: Why Aren't Phone Records Safe From Pretexting?
  Commissioner Jon Leibowitz, February 1, 2006

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2005

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission On Spyware
  Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, October 2005
  
  
• Enhancing Data Security: The Regulators' Perspective
  Lydia B. Parnes, Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, May 18, 2005
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Securing Electronic Personal Data
  Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras April 13, 2005
  
  
• Protecting Consumer' Data: Policy Issues Raised by Choicepoint
  Chairman Deborah Platt Majoras, March 15, 2005

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2004

• Protecting Information Security And Preventing Identity Theft
  Orson Swindle, September 22, 2004
  
  
• Peer-To-Peer ("P2P") File-Sharing Technology
  J. Howard Beales, III, June 23, 2004
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Information Security -- Challenges for Businesses and Consumers
  J. Howard Beales, III, June 16, 2004
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Unsolicited Commercial Email
  Timothy Muris, May 20, 2004
  
  
• Hearing on Online Pornography: Closing the Door on Pervasive Smut
  J. Howard Beales, III, May 6, 2004
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Protecting Our Nation's Cyberspace
  Orson Swindle, April 21, 2004
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Efforts to Fight Fraud on the Internet
  J. Howard Beales, III, March 23, 2004

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2003

• E-Commerce: The Case of Online Wine Sales and Direct Shipment
  Todd Zywicki, October 10, 2003
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on "Unsolicited Commercial Email"
  J. Howard Beales, III, July 9, 2003

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2002

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission Regarding Possible "State Impediments To E-Commerce"
  Ted Cruz, Director of the Office of Policy Planning, September 26, 2002

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2001

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Internet Fraud
  Eileen Harrington, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, May 23, 2001
  
  
• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Unsolicited Commercial Email
  Eileen Harrington, Deputy Director, Bureau of Consumer Protection, April 26, 2001

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1999

• Prepared Statement of the Federal Trade Commission on Telecom Mergers
  Robert Pitofsky, Chairman, November 8, 1999
  
  
• Drugstores on the Net: The Benefits and Risks of Online Pharmacies
  Jodie Bernstein, Director of the Bureau of Consumer Protection, July 30, 1999

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