FTC Taps Ed Felten As First Chief Technologist

An anonymous reader contributes this snippet from Digital Daily: "Looks like the Federal Trade Commission got its first choice of Chief Technologist, because it's hard to think of anyone better to serve in that capacity than Princeton computer science professor Ed Felten, a guy whose CV makes everyone from Microsoft to Diebold shudder in embarrassment."

Comments

Re:Great, more Elitism in Government

[blair1q]

Anyone else get the feeling that these ivory tower intellectual types are looking down their noses at us?

Every time someone asks that I think, or say, "yes, and it's well deserved."

Re:Duh

[AuMatar]

And what advantage would private sector experience give him in this position? Other than industry ties that would be used to manipulate him?