Katrina Ane Blodgett is a staff attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection, Bureau of Consumer Protection, at the Federal Trade Commission in Washington, D.C. Ms. Blodgett investigates and prosecutes violations of U.S. federal laws governing the privacy and security of consumer information, as well as violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act. She recently completed a six-month detail as Counsel to the Director at the Bureau of Consumer Protection. The most recently announced cases on which she worked were RockYou and UPromise. In addition to case work, Ms. Blodgett served on a rotation in the FTC's Office of International Affairs, where she presented technical assistance in Asia and participated in the work of the OECD and the London Action Plan. Ms. Blodgett was the key organizer of the FTC's March 16-17, 2009 conference, "Securing Personal Data in the Global Economy."
Before joining the Federal Trade Commission staff, Ms. Blodgett was an associate with Arnold & Porter LLC in Washington, D.C. Ms. Blodgett clerked for the Hon. Priscilla Owen at the Texas Supreme Court and the Hon. Royce C. Lamberth at the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.