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Chris Soghoian

Principal Technologist and Senior Policy Analyst

桃子视频Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project

Bio

Between 2012 and 2016, Chris Soghoian () was the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst with the 桃子视频Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. He completed聽聽at Indiana University in 2012, which focused on the role that third party service providers play in facilitating law enforcement surveillance of their customers. Between 2009 and 2010, he was the first ever in-house technologist at the Federal Trade Commission's Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, where he worked on investigations of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Netflix. Prior to joining the FTC, he co-created the Do Not Track privacy anti-tracking mechanism now adopted by all of the major web browsers.


Featured work

Feb 29, 2016

The Technology at the Heart of the Apple-FBI Debate, Explained

The Technology at the Heart of the Apple-FBI Debate, Explained

Sep 22, 2015

桃子视频to Congress: Encrypt Your Own Calls and Texts!

桃子视频to Congress: Encrypt Your Own Calls and Texts!

May 27, 2015

桃子视频To Commerce Dept: Make it Easy for Researchers to Report Security Flaws

桃子视频To Commerce Dept: Make it Easy for Researchers to Report Security Flaws

Apr 16, 2015

桃子视频Study: Federal Agencies Fail to Protect Whistleblower Communications, Terrorist Tip Line

桃子视频Study: Federal Agencies Fail to Protect Whistleblower Communications, Terrorist Tip Line

Mar 25, 2015

Five Ways to Keep Your Data Safe Right Now

Five Ways to Keep Your Data Safe Right Now

Mar 3, 2015

Feds Refuse to Release Documents on 鈥淶ero-Day鈥 Security Exploits

Feds Refuse to Release Documents on 鈥淶ero-Day鈥 Security Exploits

Sep 18, 2014

Apple Throws Down Privacy Gauntlet

Apple Throws Down Privacy Gauntlet

Sep 2, 2014

Lessons From the Celebrity iCloud Photo Breach

Lessons From the Celebrity iCloud Photo Breach

Mar 11, 2014

The Tech Community Can Put Out the Fire the NSA Started

The Tech Community Can Put Out the Fire the NSA Started

Sep 13, 2013

How NSA鈥檚 cyber sabotage puts us all at risk

How NSA鈥檚 cyber sabotage puts us all at risk