Christopher Soghoian
Academic
1981 –
Who is Christopher Soghoian?
Christopher Soghoian is a Washington, DC based privacy researcher and activist. He first gained notoriety in 2006 as the creator of a website that generated fake airline boarding passes. Since that incident, he has continued to engage in high-profile activism related to privacy and computer security. He is currently the principal technologist and a senior policy analyst with the speech, privacy and technology project at the American Civil Liberties Union.
Between 2009 and 2010, he worked for the US Federal Trade Commission as the first ever in-house technical advisor to the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. While at the FTC, he assisted with investigations of Facebook, Twitter, MySpace and Netflix.
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- Born
- 1981
San Francisco - Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- James Madison University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Indiana University Bloomington
- Bachelor of Science
- Employment
- Blogger
- Lived in
- Boston
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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