Wendy Seltzer | |
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| Education | Harvard College (BA) Harvard Law School (JD) |
| Organization | W3C |
| Website | wendy.seltzer.org |
Wendy Seltzer is an Americanattorney and, as of January 2023, a staff member atTucows where she is the Principal Identity Architect.[1] She is known for her many years of work with theWorld Wide Web Consortium,[2] where, among many roles, she was the chair of theImproving Web Advertising Business Group.[3]
Seltzer is also aFellow with Harvard'sBerkman Center for Internet & Society, where she founded theLumen 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 theWorld Wide Web Foundation.[6] A former At-large Liaison to theICANN 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 aVisiting Fellow at theOxford Internet Institute.[8]
Previously she was with Princeton'sCenter for Information Technology Policy and was a visiting assistant professor at theNortheastern University School of Law andBrooklyn Law School, as well as a fellow at theInformation Society Project atYale Law School,[9] and served on the board of directors of theTor Project.[10] Before that, she was a staff attorney with theElectronic Frontier Foundation, specializing in intellectual property and free speech issues.
Seltzer has an A.B. fromHarvard College ( and a J.D. fromHarvard Law School (1999).[11] In 2007, she was the Visiting Fellow with theOxford Internet Institute.[12]
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