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Daniel J. Weitzner

Danny Weitzner

W3C Technology and Society Policy Leader

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Daniel Weitzner is the Policy Director of the World Wide Web Consortium's Technology and Society activities, co-directs MIT's Decentralized Information Group with Tim Berners-Lee, and is Principal Research Scientist at MIT's Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory. His work enables the Web to address legal and public policy requirements, including the Platform for Privacy Preference (P3P) and XML Security technologies. As a leading figure in the Internet policy community, he was the first to advocate user control technologies such as content filtering. Mr. Weitzner was co-founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, and Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. Weitzner has a J.D. from Buffalo Law School, and a B.A. in Philosophy from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine, the Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACM, Computerworld, Wired Magazine, Social Research, and The Whole Earth Review.

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Contact Information :

email: djweitzner AT w3.org (change AT to 'at' sign)
telephone: MIT : +1.617.253.8036
DC: +1.202.364.4750
postal mail: MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory
Building 32-G516
77 Massachusetts Ave
Cambridge, MA 02139
USA
street address 32 Vassar St.
Cambridge, MA
USA

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Last updated: August 2003