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White House Plans to Add Technology Adviser


    By Nicole Perlroth

   May 7, 2013 6:16 pm May 7, 2013 6:16 pm (BUTTON)

   The White House is looking to Silicon Valley to expand its team of
   technology advisers.

   CNET and AllThingsD reported on Tuesday that President Obama has
   picked Nicole Wong, a legal director at Twitter, to be the White
   House’s first chief privacy officer.

   People familiar with the situation said that the White House does not
   intend to create a chief privacy officer post, but is looking to add a
   senior adviser to its chief technology officer, Todd Park.

   These people described the hiring discussions as developing and said
   that Ms. Wong was among the leading contenders, who also include other
   Silicon Valley executives.

   Social media companies and e-mail providers increasingly find
   themselves on the front lines of high-level policy discussions
   concerning privacy. Twitter, Facebook and Google must regularly contend
   with government demands that they hand over users’ personal
   information.

   According to a recent Electronic Frontier Foundation survey, the
   companies are cooperating to varying degrees. The survey — titled “Who
   Has Your Back?” — examined the privacy policies of 18 major Internet
   companies. Twitter got top marks with six out of six stars, compared
   with a single star each for Apple, Yahoo and AT&T. (Verizon was awarded
   none.)

   Before joining Twitter last year, Ms. Wong spent eight years at Google
   where she oversaw policy, privacy and copyright-related issues. She was
   the subject of a lengthy 2008 New York Times Magazine article, which
   said she and her team “have arguably more influence over the contours
   of online expression than anyone else on the planet.”
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