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Ashkan Soltani
Ashkan Soltani is the executive director of the California Privacy Protection Agency. He has previously been the Chief Technologist of the Federal Trade Commission and an independent privacy and security researcher based in Washington, DC. Education Soltani attended the University of California, San Diego, where he received a bachelor's degree in cognitive science. Soltani would later receive a master's degree from the University of California, Berkeley School of Information. Career in government Between 2010 and 2011, Soltani worked for the US Federal Trade Commission as a staff technologist in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, where he assisted with the investigations of Google and Facebook. Soltani previously worked as the primary technical consultant to ''The Wall Street Journals "What They Know" series investigating online privacy. In 2011, he testified at two different hearings held by US Senate committees focused on privacy related matters. Julia Ang ...
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University Of California, San Diego
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Gerald Loeb Award Winners For Large Newspapers
The Gerald Loeb Award is given annually for multiple categories of business reporting. The "Newspaper" category was awarded in 1958–1973. It was split into two categories beginning in 1974: " Small Newspapers" and "Large Newspapers". A thirdh category, " Medium Newspapers", was created in 1987. The small and medium newspaper awards were combined as " Medium & Small Newspapers" in 2009–2012, and " Small & Medium Newspapers" in 2013–2014. The last year newspaper categories were awarded was 2014. Gerald Loeb Award for Large Newspapers * 1974: Paul Steiger, ''Los Angeles Times'' ::Article: :"Use by Some Banks of Loan Loopholes Worries Regulators" December 3, 1973 * 1975: "Utility Rates: Too High or Too Low?" by Allan Sloan, ''Detroit Free Press'' * 1976: Willard Randal and Stephen Solomon, ''Philadelphia Inquirer'' ::Their special feature article documented the health hazards to workers of a chemical used at the Philadelphia plant of Rohn & Haas that led to 54 cancer deaths. ...
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University Of California, Berkeley School Of Information Alumni
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