• Payment card security standards issues related to data breach, privacy, data security, and cyber security.

Duration: February 27, 2009 to present

General Issues: Consumer Issues/Safety/Protection, Financial Institutions/Investments/Securities, Homeland Security, Science/Technology, Law Enforcement/Crime/Criminal Justice, Labor Issues/Antitrust/Workplace

Spending: about $2,540,000 (But it's complicated. Here's why.)

It can be tricky to figure out how much an organization spent on a particular lobbying engagement. The law only requires lobbyists to report the amount they were paid for federal lobbying each quarter rounded to the nearest $10,000—and if it's less than $3,000 in a given quarter (or less than $13,000 for organizations with in-house lobbyists), they don't have to disclose it at all. Plus, some organizations include spending that doesn’t belong in the report—for instance, money spent lobbying state governments or other legal work.

Agencies lobbied since 2009: U.S. Senate, House of Representatives, White House Office, Federal Trade Commission (FTC), Federal Reserve System, Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB), Justice - Dept of (DOJ), Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST), Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC), Treasury - Dept of, Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), Homeland Security - Dept of (DHS), U.S. Senate,, Natl Institute of Standards & Technology (NIST),, Commerce - Dept of (DOC)