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Biography of Daniel J.
Weitzner, W3C Technology and Society Domain
Leader
Daniel Weitzner is Director of the World Wide
Web Consortium's Technology
and Society activities. As such, he is
responsible for development of technology
standards that enable the web to address social,
legal, and public policy concerns such as privacy,
free speech, security, protection of minors,
authentication, intellectual property and
identification. Weitzner holds an appointment as
Principle Research Scientist at MIT's Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
and teaches Internet public policy at MIT.
As one of the leading figures in the Internet
public policy community, he was the first to
advocate user control technologies such as content
filtering and rating to protect children and avoid
government censorship of the Intenet. These
arguments played a critical role in the 1997 US
Supreme Court case, Reno
v. ACLU, awarding the highest free speech
protections to the Internet. He successfully
advocated for adoption of amendments to the
Electronic Communications Privacy Act creating new
privacy protections for online transactional
information such as Web site access logs.
Before joining the W3C, Mr. Weitzner was
co-founder and Deputy Director of the Center
for Democracy and Technology, a leading
Internet civil liberties organization in
Washington, DC. He was also Deputy Policy Director
of the Electronic
Frontier Foundation. Mr. Weitzner has a degree
in law from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in
Philosophy from Swarthmore College.
His publications on communications policy have
appeared in the Yale Law Review, Global Networks,
MIT Press, Computerworld, Wired Magazine, Social
Research, Electronic Networking: Research,
Applications & Policy, and The Whole Earth
Review. He is also a commentator for NPR's
Marketplace Radio.
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