FTC appoints privacy researcher Soltani as chief technologist

The U.S. Federal Trade Commission’s new chief technologist is high-profile digital privacy consultant Ashkan Soltani, a move that signals the agency’s growing interest in policing online tracking and other Internet privacy issues.

FTC Chairwoman Edith Ramirez announced Tuesday she has appointed Soltani, a security researcher who shared the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for stories about the U.S. National Security Agency’s surveillance programs, as the agency’s chief technologist.

Soltani will join the FTC in November and offer advice on technology and policy issues, including digital privacy, an area in which the agency has increasingly focused on bringing enforcement actions.

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