---
kind: "section"
citation: "15 U.S.C. § 6826"
title: "15"
title_heading: "Commerce and Trade"
number: "6826"
heading: "Reports"
release: "119-102"
date: "2026-07-12"
url: "https://uscodex.org/usc/15/6826"
units:
  - "Chapter 94 — Privacy"
  - "Subchapter II — Fraudulent Access to Financial Information"
---

# §6826. Reports

- (a) **Report to the Congress—** Before the end of the 18-month period beginning on November 12, 1999, the Comptroller General, in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission, [Federal banking agencies](/usc/15/6809.md?p=1), the National Credit Union [Administration](/usc/15/636e.md?p=1), the Securities and Exchange Commission, appropriate Federal law enforcement agencies, and appropriate [State](/usc/15/15g.md?p=2) insurance regulators, shall submit to the Congress a report on the following:
  - (1) The efficacy and adequacy of the remedies provided in this subchapter in addressing attempts to obtain financial information by fraudulent means or by false pretenses.
  - (2) Any recommendations for additional legislative or regulatory action to address threats to the privacy of financial information created by attempts to obtain information by fraudulent means or false pretenses.
- (b) **Annual report by administering agencies—** The Federal Trade Commission and the Attorney General shall submit to Congress an annual report on number and disposition of all enforcement actions taken pursuant to this subchapter.

## Source credit

(Pub. L. 106–102, title V, § 526, Nov. 12, 1999, 113 Stat. 1448.)