Daniel Weitzner
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Daniel J. Weitzner is the director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and principal research scientist at the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab CSAIL. He teaches Internet public policy in MIT's Computer Science Department. His research includes development of accountable systems architectures to enable the Web to be more responsive to policy requirements.
Online privacy
Weitzner is an expert in online privacy who has had significant impact in the field. He served as the Deputy Chief Technology Officer of the United States from 2011 to 2012, where he focused on Internet policy and privacy.{{cite web|url=http://gov20.govfresh.com/daniel-weitzner-is-the-new-white-house-deputy-cto-for-internet-policy/|title=Daniel Weitzner is the new White House deputy CTO for Internet policy|work=govfresh.com}} During his tenure as a White House technology official, he oversaw a consumer privacy initiative{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/29/technology/obamas-effort-on-consumer-privacy-falls-short-critics-say.html|title=Why a Push for Online Privacy Is Bogged Down in Washington|last=Singer|first=Natasha|date=2016-02-28|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}} and was primarily responsible{{cite web|url=https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/blog/2012/02/23/we-can-t-wait-obama-administration-calls-consumer-privacy-bill-rights-digital-age|via=National Archives|work=whitehouse.gov|title=We Can't Wait: Obama Administration Calls for A Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights for the Digital Age}} for the creation of the Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights[https://obamawhitehouse.archives.gov/sites/default/files/privacy-final.pdf Consumer Data Privacy in a networked world: A framework for protecting privacy and promoting innovation in the global Digital Economy], White House, February, 2012 and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles[https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/foreign-policy-of-the-internet/2011/07/08/gIQAjqFyEI_story.html OECD Council Recommendation on Principles for Internet Policy Making], OECD, 13 December 2011
Weitzner and several colleagues wrote the Information Accountability paper, which proposed an alternative approach to information policy where individuals and institutions determine for themselves the way information about them is used lawfully and appropriately by others.{{Cite book|title=Managing Privacy Through Accountability|last1=Guagnin|first1=Daniel|last2=Hempel|first2=Leon|last3=Ilten|first3=Carla|last4=Kroener|first4=Inga|last5=Neyland|first5=Daniel|last6=Postigo|first6=Hector|date=2012|publisher=Palgrave Macmillan|isbn=9780230369320|location=New York|pages=39}}
Weitzner co-directs the Decentralized Information Group Tim Berners-Lee and is heading a new, cross-MIT research initiative: MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative funded by the Hewlett Foundation.{{cite web|url=http://www.betaboston.com/news/2015/03/13/mit-launches-trio-of-new-cybersecurity-initiatives/|title=MIT launches a trio of new cybersecurity initiatives|work=betaboston.com}} He facilitated discussions and workshops on technology issues such as artificial intelligence (AI){{Cite web|url=https://news.mit.edu/2019/first-ai-policy-congress-0118|title=AI, the law, and our future|last=Dizikes|first=Peter|date=January 18, 2019|website=MIT News|access-date=2019-05-30}} and encryption.{{Cite news|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/us/politics/unlock-phones-encryption.html|title=Justice Dept. Revives Push to Mandate a Way to Unlock Phones|last=Savage|first=Charlie|date=2018-03-24|work=The New York Times|access-date=2019-05-30|language=en-US|issn=0362-4331}}
Weitzner's background in the area of privacy and policy includes his work as a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology{{cite web|url=https://cdt.org/staff/danny-weitzner/|title=Danny Weitzner - Center for Democracy & Technology|work=cdt.org}} and a stint as the Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is also Founding member,{{cite news |title=Group of University Researchers to Make Web Science a Field of Study|first=Steve |last=Lohr |date=November 2, 2006 |access-date=December 19, 2016|newspaper=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/technology/02compute.html}} Director and Trustee of the Web Science Trust.
Education
Weitzner has a law degree from University at Buffalo Law School and a B.A. in philosophy from Swarthmore College. His writings have appeared in Science magazine,{{cite journal|first1=Tim |last1=Berners-Lee |author1-link=Tim Berners-Lee |first2=W. |last2=Hall |first3=J. |last3=Hendler |first4=N. |last4=Shadbolt |first5=D. |last5=Weitzner |url=https://www.science.org/doi/abs/10.1126/science.1126902 |title=Creating a Science of the Web |journal=Science |volume= 313 |issue= 5788 |pages=769–771 |doi=10.1126/science.1126902 |year=2006 |pmid=16902115|s2cid=5104030 |url-access=subscription }} Yale Law Review, Communications of the ACMD. Weitzner, H. Abelson, T. Berners-Lee, J. Feigenbaum, J. Hendler and G. Sussman, [http://dl.acm.org/citation.cfm?id=1349043 Information Accountability], Communications of the ACM, June, 2008.James Hendler, Nigel Shadbolt, Wendy Hall, Tim Berners-Lee, Daniel Weitzner, [http://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2008/7/5366-web-science/fulltext Web Science: An Interdisciplinary Approach to Understanding the Web], Communications of the ACM, Vol. 51 No. 7, Pages 60-69 the Washington Post, Wired Magazine and Social Research.
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External links
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