Ashkan Soltani Named FTC Chief Technologist
The Federal Trade Commission today appointed Ashkan Soltani its chief technologist. Soltani in April was named a 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service recipient as a contributor to Washington Post coverage of NSA surveillance exposed by Edward Snowden.
Soltani served as a staff technologist at the FTC from 2010-11 and succeeds Dr. Latanya Sweeney, the founder of Harvard’s Data Privacy Lab, where she’s returning as director.
“Technology and online and mobile platforms are continuing to evolve at a rapid pace and will remain a key focus for the FTC as more and more consumers adopt mobile devices and tablets,” said FTC chairwoman Edith Ramirez in the announcement.
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