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]

Wendy Seltzer
At the iCommons meeting in Dubrovnik 2007
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 2007, she was the Visiting Fellow with the Oxford Internet Institute.^[12]

Publications

• "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^[13]
• Abelson, Harold, et al. Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness after the Digital Explosion. 2nd ed., Addison-Wesley Professional, 2021.