Ryan Singel is a San Francisco-based blogger and journalist covering tech business, tech policy, civil liberty and privacy issues. His work has appeared extensively in Wired.com, and Singel co-founded the Threat Level blog with journalist and convicted hacker Kevin Lee Poulsen. As of 2008, he began covering tech business news for " Wired.com"'s Epicenter blog.
Singel has covered issues of government monitoring, and has been a chronicler of AT&T's alleged involvement in the NSA warrantless surveillance controversy. Involvement by Wired News in the case has been criticized by federal authorities. [1] [2]
Singel also founded a copy editing company called The Universal Desk in 2009.
In 2012, Singel left his job at Wired to run the startup called Contextly, an engagement platform for publishers. [3] [4]