Christopher Soghoian

Principal technologist

American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU)

Dubbed the “Ralph Nader for the Internet Age” by Wired and “the most prominent of a new breed of activist technology researchers” by The Economist, Christopher Soghoian works at the intersection of technology, law and policy.

As a leading expert on privacy, surveillance and information security, he worked for the US Federal Trade Commission as the first-ever in-house technical advisor to the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection. As a 2012 TEDGlobal Fellow, Christopher Soghoian has been named a top innovator under 35 by the MIT Technology Review, and was an Open Society Foundations Fellow. 

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