Michael Atleson

Michael Atleson is an attorney with the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection at the Federal Trade Commission, where he focuses on enforcement and policy matters relating to the division's core concerns of data security, identity theft, pretexting, fair credit reporting, and consumer privacy. Previously, Michael served as the staff attorney of the Maine Office of Securities, an assistant attorney general in Massachusetts, a litigation associate at Kornstein, Veisz, Wexler & Pollard in New York, and a law clerk for the Honorable Naomi R. Buchwald in the Southern District of New York. He received his law degree from New York University School of Law.