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]
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| Nationality | American |
| Education | Harvard College (BA) Harvard Law School (JD) |
| Organization | W3C |
| Website | wendy.seltzer.org |
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]
Publications edit
- "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 edit
- ^ "Tucows welcomes new employees that joined in January 2023". LinkedIn. Retrieved 20 April 2023.
- ^ "Who's Who at the World Wide Web Consortium". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
- ^ 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.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer | USENIX". www.usenix.org. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer." (profile). Berkman Center for Internet & Society. Accessed November 30, 2008.
- ^ "World Wide Web Foundation Boards of Directors." webfoundation.org. Accessed January 31, 2012.
- ^ "ICANN Board of Directors". Retrieved 2012-01-31.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer" (profile). Oxford Internet Institute. Accessed August 30, 2021.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer" (faculty page). Yale Law School. Accessed October 10, 2011. Archived from the original.
- ^ "Tor Project, a Digital Privacy Group, Reboots With New Board." New York Times (July 14, 2016).
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer". V2_ Lab for the Unstable Media. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "OII | Wendy Seltzer". www.oii.ox.ac.uk. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "Wendy Seltzer". wendy.seltzer.org. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
- ^ "Free speech unmoored in copyright's safe harbor: Chilling effects of the DMCA on the first amendment". scholar.google.com. Retrieved 2024-04-13.
External links edit
- Official website
- Profile at Berkman Center for Internet & Society | Harvard University
- Profile at Node.js Interactive
- Speaking session: 11:20am, December 12, 2019.