About the IAPP

Manas Mohapatra is Legal Director, Products at Twitter, where he manages a team that provides legal guidance to product and engineering teams for Twitter, Vine, and Periscope on issues around privacy, consumer protection, content regulation, and intellectual property.  Prior to joining Twitter, he was a consumer protection attorney at the Federal Trade Commission, where he enforced federal privacy and consumer protection laws.  At the FTC, Manas brought enforcement actions in multiple cases involving allegations of unfair or deceptive privacy and security practices, including the FTC's settlements with Facebook and MySpace.  He co-authored the FTC Staff Report: Mobile Apps for Kids: Disclosures Still Not Making the Grade and also served on detail as an attorney-advisor to then-FTC Commissioner Edith Ramirez.  Prior to joining the FTC, he was a litigation associate at Goodwin Procter, and a judicial law clerk for the Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court in Puerto Rico. Before law school, Manas worked as a senior web developer for Nickelodeon Online and as a database programmer for a distance education software company.  He received his bachelors’ degree from Johns Hopkins University and his law degree from Northwestern.