Wendy Seltzer
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 2007, she was the Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute.[12] Publications
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