Wendy Seltzer
At the iCommons meeting in Dubrovnik 2007
NationalityAmerican
EducationHarvard College (BA)
Harvard Law School (JD)
OrganizationW3C
Websitewendy.seltzer.org

Wendy Seltzer is an American attorney and, as of January 2023, a staff member at Tucows where she is the Principal Identity Architect.[1] She is known for her many years of work with the World Wide Web Consortium,[2] where, among many roles, she was the chair of the Improving Web Advertising Business Group.[3]

Seltzer is also a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Center for Internet & Society, where she founded and leads the Lumen clearinghouse, which is aimed at helping Internet users to understand their rights in response to cease-and-desist threats related to intellectual property and other legal demands.[4]

In the past, Seltzer served on the board of directors 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 of, and for increased protection of, the privacy of Internet users. From April to July 2007, she was a Visiting Fellow at the Oxford Internet Institute.[7]

Previously she was with Princeton's Center for Information Technology Policy and was a visiting assistant professor at the Northeastern University School of Law and Brooklyn Law School, as well as a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School,[8] and served on the board of directors of the Tor Project.[9] Before that, she was 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 a J.D. from Harvard Law School. She is also a Perl programmer.[10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Tucows welcomes new employees that joined in January 2023". LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
  2. ↑ "Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  3. ↑ Schiff, Allison (2021-04-26). "An Inside Look At The W3C With Strategy Lead Wendy Seltzer, As Debate Swirls Around The Privacy Sandbox". AdExchanger. Retrieved 2021-05-21.
  4. ↑ "Wendy Seltzer." (profile). Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Accessed November 30, 2008.
  5. ↑ "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors." webfoundation.org. Accessed January 31, 2012.
  6. ↑ "ICANN Board of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  7. ↑ "Wendy Seltzer" (profile). Oxford Internet Institute. Accessed August 30, 2021.
  8. ↑ "Wendy Seltzer" (faculty page). Yale Law School. Accessed October 10, 2011. Archived from the original.
  9. ↑ "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board." New York Times (July 14, 2016).
  10. ↑ Wendy.seltzer.org
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