Wendy Seltzer is an American lawyer and a member of the World Wide Web Consortium [1] .
| Wendy Seltzer | |
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| English Wendy seltzer | |
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| Citizenship |  USA |
| Occupation | employee of the World Wide Web Consortium ; Board Member of Tor and World Wide Web Foundation |
Biography
Seltzer received her Bachelor of Arts degree from Harvard College and her PhD from Harvard Law School . She also speaks the Perl programming language [2] .
She previously worked at the Princeton Center for Information Technology Policy. Seltzer is also an employee of the Harvard University’s Berkman Center for Internet and Society, where she founded and leads the Chilling Effects Information Center, which aims to help Internet users understand their rights in the context of claims to end intellectual property infringement and other legal requirements [ 3] .
Seltzer is on the board of directors of the Tor [4] project and the World Wide Web Foundation [5] . As a former Liaison Officer with the ICANN Board of Directors [6] , she advocates for greater transparency in the organization, as well as enhanced privacy protection for Internet users.
Previously, she was a visiting assistant professor at the School of Law at Northeastern University and the Brooklyn School of Law, and was an employee of the Yale School of Law Information Society project [7] . Prior to that, she was a staff lawyer at the Electronic Frontier Foundation , specializing in intellectual property and freedom of expression.
Notes
- ↑ Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium . Date of treatment January 31, 2012.
- ↑ Wendy.seltzer.org
- ↑ Wendy Seltzer (profile) . Berkman Center for Internet and Society . Date of treatment November 30, 2008.
- ↑ Tor: People . The Tor Project . Date of treatment November 30, 2008.
- ↑ World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors . Date of treatment January 31, 2012.
- ↑ ICANN Board of Directors . Date of treatment January 31, 2012.
- ↑ Yale Law School (inaccessible link) . Date of treatment October 25, 2011. Archived November 25, 2011.