Wendy Seltzer

Wendy Seltzer is a lawyer and technologist, currently consulting via the Law Office of Wendy Seltzer. She is a founder of the First Person Cooperative, addressing governance of decentralized trust networks for personhood recognition and agency.

As Principal Identity Architect at Tucows, she helped to found the Ayra Association. 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. She seeks to improve technology policy in support of user-driven innovation and secure communication. She co-authored the second edition of Blown to Bits: Your Life, Liberty, and Happiness After the Digital Explosion.