Alvaro Bedoya

Alvaro Martin Bedoya[1] (born 1982) is an American attorney working as the director of the Center on Privacy and Technology at the Georgetown University Law Center. In 2021, he was nominated to serve as a member of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) by President Joe Biden.[2][3] He is known for his focus on digital privacy issues, and if confirmed he would replace Rohit Chopra as a member of the FTC.[4]

Alvaro Bedoya
Commissioner of the Federal Trade Commission
Nominee
Assumed office
TBD
PresidentJoe Biden
Preceded byRohit Chopra
Personal details
Born1982 (age 38–39)
Lima, Peru
EducationHarvard University (AB)
Yale University (JD)

Early life and education

Bedoya was born in 1982 in Lima, Peru, and was raised in Vestal, New York.[5] Bedoya received a Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and a Juris Doctor from Yale Law School. While at Yale, Bedoya worked on the Yale Law Journal.[6]

Career

Bedoya served as chief counsel to the United States Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Privacy, Technology and the Law.[7] Bedoya also served as chief counsel to Senator Al Franken (D-MN).[8]

Bedoya is known for his opposition to government surveillance, and has argued that the right to privacy is a civil liberty.[9] In a 2018 article in The New York Times, Bedoya criticized Facebook, Google, and other technology companies for alleged violations of user privacy rights.[10] Bedoya advocated for the removal of advertisements for payday loan services on Google, stating that the "internet should not be a place that profits from your weaknesses".[11]

Bedoya's work has been published in publications such as The New York Times,[10] The Washington Post,[12] and The Atlantic.[13]

Federal Trade Commission

In early 2021, Bedoya was considered by President Joe Biden as a potential nominee to the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) seat held by Joseph Simons.[14] However, Lina Khan was instead chosen for this position.

In September 2021, Bedoya was instead chosen for the FTC seat held by Rohit Chopra. Bedoya's nomination was praised by now-FTC Chair Khan, who stated that Bedoya's "expertise on surveillance and data security and his longstanding commitment to public service would be enormously valuable to the Commission" in a press release.[3]

On December 1, 2021, the Senate's commerce, science, and transportation committee failed to report his nomination favorably out of the committee due to a tie vote.[15]

References
  1. "Yale Law School, 2007–2008" (PDF). Yale Law School. p. 155. Alvaro Martin Bedoya
  2. "President Biden Announces 10 Key Nominations". The White House. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  3. "Statement of FTC Chair Lina M. Khan on the Nomination of Alvaro Bedoya to Serve as a Commissioner". Federal Trade Commission. 2021-09-13. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  4. "Biden to nominate critic of surveillance software to FTC, further bolstering agency as check on Big Tech". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  5. "Fourteen win Soros Fellowships". Harvard Gazette. 2006-02-16. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  6. "Alvaro Bedoya". Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  7. "The Dark Horse for Antitrust Chief, FTC". Benton Foundation. 2021-02-01. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  8. "Bio - Alvaro Bedoya" (PDF). United States House of Representatives.
  9. Buttar, Shahid (2019-04-25). "Alvaro Bedoya Highlights the Critical Connection between Civil Liberties and Civil Rights". Electronic Frontier Foundation. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  10. Bedoya, Alvaro M. (2018-06-07). "Opinion | A License to Discriminate". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  11. Francisco, Shaun Nichols in San. "Google kneecaps payday loan ads". www.theregister.com. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  12. Bedoya, Alvaro (2017-03-22). "Opinion | Who's logging your face?". Washington Post. ISSN 0190-8286. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  13. Bedoya, Alvaro M. (2017-06-21). "Deportation Is Going High-Tech Under Trump". The Atlantic. Retrieved 2021-09-15.
  14. Nylen, Leah. "Biden picks two antitrust crusaders. But his biggest choices come next". Politico PRO. Retrieved 2021-09-13.
  15. Vittorio, Andrea. "Senate Commerce Deadlocks Over Bedoya's Nomination to FTC (1)". Bloomberg Law. Retrieved 14 December 2021.
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