Wendy Seltzer
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 Wendy Seltzer at the iCommons meeting in Dubrovnik 2007 |
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Wendy Seltzer is an American lawyer and currently a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School[1] and staff member at the World Wide Web Consortium.[2] She was previously with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy. Seltzer is also a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where she founded and leads the Chilling Effects clearinghouse, aimed at helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats related to intellectual property and other legal demands.[3]
Seltzer sits on the board of directors of the Tor Project,[4] and of the World Wide Web Foundation[5]. A former At-Large Liaison to the ICANN Board of Directors, [6] she has advocated for increased transparency of the organization, and for increased protection of the privacy of Internet users.
Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School and before that, a staff attorney with the Electronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues.
Seltzer has an A.B. from Harvard College and J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is also a Perl programmer.[7]
[edit] References
- ^ "Yale Law School". http://www.law.yale.edu/faculty/WSeltzer.htm. Retrieved 2011-25-10.
- ^ "Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium". http://www.w3.org/People/all#wseltzer. Retrieved 2012-31-01.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer (profile)". Berkman Center for Internet and Society. http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/people/wseltzer. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
- ^ "Tor:People". The Tor Project. https://www.torproject.org/people.html.en. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
- ^ "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors". http://www.webfoundation.org/about/boards/united-states/. Retrieved 2012-31-01.
- ^ "ICANN Board of Directors". http://www.icann.org/en/general/board.html. Retrieved 2012-31-01.
- ^ Wendy.seltzer.org
