Wendy Seltzer
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Wendy Seltzer is a lawyer and technologist. As Principal Identity Architect at Tucows, she helped to found the Arya Association for interoperable trust and identity recognition. She previously served as Strategy Lead and Counsel to the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) at MIT, improving the Web's security, availability, and interoperability through standards. As a Fellow with Harvard's Berkman Klein Center for Internet & Society, Wendy founded the Lumen Project (formerly Chilling Effects Clearinghouse), the web's pioneering transparency report to measure the impact of legal takedown demands online. Wendy co-authored the second edition of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and secure communication.