The Commodity Futures Trading Commission created the Privacy Office in July 2010. The Office evaluates Commission programs, systems and initiatives for potential privacy impacts, provides mitigation strategies to reduce privacy impacts, and ensures transparency around Commission policies and practices related to the handling of personally identifiable information.
The mission of the Privacy Office is to preserve and enhance privacy protections for all individuals whose personal information is handled by the Commission, and to promote transparency of Commission operations involving personal information.
The Privacy Office:
The Commission uses Fair Information Practice Principles (“FIPPs”) as a policy framework to enhance privacy protections by assessing the nature and purpose for all PII collected to fulfill the Commission’s mission. The FIPPs are five core principles of privacy protection: (1) Notice/Awareness; (2) Choice/Consent; (3) Access/Participation; (4) Integrity/Security; and (5) Enforcement/Redress. For a discussion of the FIPPs, please visit the Federal Trade Commission’s site.
Contact
Kathy Harman-Stokes, J.D., CIPP, CIPP/G
Chief Privacy Officer
Office of the Executive Director
1155 21st St., N.W.
Washington, D.C. 20581
By email: privacy@cftc.gov
By phone: 202-418-6629
By fax: 202-418-5532