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
2011-10-24 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)
2012-06-06 New Jersey Sues Over iPhone Kids App (News Coverage)
Ashkan Soltani 