Bio
Between 2012 and 2016, Chris Soghoian (@csoghoian) was the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. He completed his Ph.D. 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
May 15, 2013
Federal Judge: Only Powered-Off Cell Phones Deserve Privacy Protections
Apr 17, 2013
ACLU Files FTC Complaint Over Android Smartphone Security
Apr 12, 2013
Why Won’t the IRS Deploy Basic Web Security?
Feb 26, 2013
New Document Sheds Light on Government’s Ability to Search iPhones
Jan 8, 2013
US Surveillance Law May Poorly Protect New Text Message Services
Dec 12, 2012
Hotel Lock Security Vulnerability is Reminder of Government’s Ambiguous Role in Protecting Security
Dec 5, 2012
FTC Busts Advertisers In Browser Snooping Scandal, But Web Sites Shouldn't be Off the Hook
Nov 27, 2012
Does Using Certain Privacy Tools Expose You to Warrantless NSA Surveillance? ACLU Files FOIA to Find Out
Nov 13, 2012
Surveillance and Security Lessons From the Petraeus Scandal
Oct 1, 2012
Tuesday: Federal Appeals Court Hears Important Cell Phone Tracking Case