Today the Senate Committee on Commerce, Science and Transportation held a hearing on Federal Trade Commission (FTC) Reauthorization. Testimony was presented on the agency’s work in the areas of competition and consumer protection, and future plans for programs that respond to the challenges from the wide range of consumer fraud conducted via the Internet, along with high-profile issues in the news such as personal data collection and web privacy, unsolicited commercial e-mail, IP and competition and antitrust enforcement.