Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer
photographed at the iCommons meeting in Dubrovnik 2007
Website	wendy.seltzer.org

Wendy Seltzer is an American attorney and a staff member at the World Wide Web Consortium.^[1] 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, 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.^[2]

Seltzer sits on the board of directors of the Tor Project,^[3] and of the World Wide Web Foundation.^[4] A former At-large Liaison to the ICANN board of directors,^[5] she has advocated for increased transparency of the organization of, 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 a fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School.^[6] 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.^[7]

References

1. "Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
2. "Wendy Seltzer (profile)". Berkman Center for Internet and Society. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
3. "Tor:People". The Tor Project. Retrieved 2008-11-30.
4. "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
5. "ICANN Board of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
6. "Yale Law School". Retrieved 2011-10-25.
7. Wendy.seltzer.org

External links

• People - Berkman Center for Internet & Society
• Wendy Seltzer's blog
• Digital TV Liberation Front
• Fulbright Chair Speaker Series (MP3)