President Obama to Appoint Twitter's Legal Director as White House Chief Privacy Officer
Another advisor/czar will join the Obama White House, this time in the newly created position of "chief privacy officer."
President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter's legal director, to be the White House's first chief privacy officer, CNET has learned.
Wong previously was a vice president and deputy general counsel at Google at its Mountain View, Calif., headquarters, where she managed a team of lawyers that worked with the company's engineers to review products before they launched. The reviews included privacy, copyright, and removal requests, which earned her a nickname of "The Decider" -- as recounted in a 2008 New York Times Magazine article.
CNET reports Wong will actually be a senior adviser to the White House's "Chief Technology Officer," who is, presumably, an advisor to the president.
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