Bio
Between 2012 and 2016, Chris Soghoian () was the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst with the ACLU Speech, Privacy, and Technology Project. He completed 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
Sep 22, 2015
ACLU to Congress: Encrypt Your Own Calls and Texts!
May 27, 2015
ACLU To Commerce Dept: Make it Easy for Researchers to Report Security Flaws
Apr 16, 2015
ACLU Study: Federal Agencies Fail to Protect Whistleblower Communications, Terrorist Tip Line
Mar 3, 2015
Feds Refuse to Release Documents on “Zero-Day” Security Exploits
Sep 2, 2014
Lessons From the Celebrity iCloud Photo Breach
Mar 11, 2014
The Tech Community Can Put Out the Fire the NSA Started
Sep 13, 2013
How NSA’s cyber sabotage puts us all at risk