FTC Hires Hacker to Help With Privacy Issues. It Didn't Last.
Given this history, he was surprised when the Federal Trade Commission offered him a job in 2009. Soghoian, 29, was the first of a handful of technologists the agency recruited to investigate corporations for violating consumers' privacy. The FTC needed tech geeks to help it understand privacy on the Web, and Soghoian, an Indiana University informatics-and-computing Ph.D. candidate fresh off a Harvard law and technology fellowship, accepted the offer for pragmatic reasons. "We have one privacy regulator at the federal level in this country--the FTC," says Soghoian.
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