Interview with Alain Sheer, an attorney with the Federal Trade Commission’s Bureau for Consumer Protection. Sheer: The FTC’s policy is not to confirm or deny a particular investigation. The FTC collects information using administrative subpoenas, or what we call a voluntary access letter in lieu thereof, and what we try to do is tailor the requests, the information we are asking for to the circumstances that we are trying to learn more about in order to avoid being overbroad. The data breaches that come out of the cases that we have done have certain steps to them. They are not all identical.”]