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Wendy Seltzer
At the iCommons meeting in Dubrovnik 2007
NationalityAmerican
Education Harvard College ( BA)
Harvard Law School ( JD)
Organization W3C
Website wendy.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, [4] 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. [5]

In the past, Seltzer served on the board of directors of the World Wide Web Foundation. [6] A former At-large Liaison to the ICANN board of directors, [7] 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. [8]

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, [9] and served on the board of directors of the Tor Project. [10] 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 (1999). [11] In 2027, she was the Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute. [12]

She is also a Perl programmer. [13]

Publications

  • "EFF Members Build Liberated TVs." Deeplinks (May 23, 2005). Electronic Frontier Foundation.
  • "Free speech unmoored in copyright's safe harbor: Chilling effects of the DMCA on the first amendment", Harv. JL & Tech 2010 [14]
  • Abelson, Harold, et al. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion. 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2021.

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 | USENIX". www.usenix.org. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  5. ^ "Wendy Seltzer." (profile). Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Accessed November 30, 2008.
  6. ^ "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors." webfoundation.org. Accessed January 31, 2012.
  7. ^ "ICANN Board of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
  8. ^ "Wendy Seltzer" (profile). Oxford Internet Institute. Accessed August 30, 2021.
  9. ^ "Wendy Seltzer" (faculty page). Yale Law School. Accessed October 10, 2011. Archived from the original.
  10. ^ "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board." New York Times (July 14, 2016).
  11. ^ "Wendy Seltzer". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  12. ^ "OII | Wendy Seltzer". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  13. ^ "Wendy Seltzer". wendy.seltzer.org. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
  14. ^ "Free speech unmoored in copyright's safe harbor: Chilling effects of the DMCA on the first amendment". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-04-13.

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