Ashkan Soltani

Independent Researcher & Consultant

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Consumer Protection

I  served as the staff technologist to the FTC’s Division of Privacy and Identity Protection and continue to help them and other consumer protection agencies on technical consumer privacy/security investigations.

Federal Trade Commission Investigations

2013-02-22 HTC America Settles FTC Charges It Failed to Secure Millions of Mobile Devices Shipped to Consumers 

2012-09-11 FTC Finalizes Privacy Settlement with Myspace

2011-11-29 Facebook Settles FTC Charges That It Deceived Consumers By Failing To Keep Privacy Promises

2011-11-08 Online Advertiser Settles FTC Charges ScanScout Deceptively Used Flash Cookies to Track Consumers Online

2011-10-24 FTC Gives Final Approval to Settlement with Google over Buzz Rollout

2011-04-11 FTC Accepts Final Settlement with Twitter for Failure to Safeguard Personal Information

State Attorney General

2016-11-06 Ohio Supreme Court Affirms CAT Economic Presence Nexus Standard (News Coverage)

2013-11-21 New Jersey Settles with a Data Analytics Company Accused of “History Sniffing”

2013-11-19 New Jersey Attorney General Settles with a Video Game Company Accused of Installing Malware on its Customers’ Computers that Allowed the Company to use them for Bitcoin Mining (News Coverage)

2013-07-25 New Jersey Settles with Advertising Company over Allegations that they Circumvented Users’ Privacy Settings

2012-06-06 New Jersey Sues Over iPhone Kids App (News Coverage)

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  • Tech at FTC
  • Announcing Floodwatch
  • The Washington Post’s Surveillance Coverage Won a Pulitzer!
  • Security at the Mercy of Advertising
  • Talks and Events

Work

  • The Washington Post
  • Online Tracking
  • Consumer Protection
  • Mobile Privacy and Security
  • Surveillance
  • KnowPrivacy: a web privacy investigation
  • Wall Street Journal’s “What They Know” Series

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