After getting home from work or school, some men seek out the privacy of “The Man Cave,” an office or room that allows them to dive into their hobbies and forget the stress of everyday life. This trope is often seen in fiction, with male comic book super heroes setting up shop in secret labs, [...]
President Obama has selected a Twitter lawyer for office. Nicole Wong has more than a decade of experience as an attorney for Silicon Valley covering copyright and privacy, and all this behind the scenes of a site you might use all the time. Nicole Wong has worked for Google and Twitter, making her a formidable [...]Show More Summary
Davis Wright Tremaine has added a former in-house communications attorney to the Washington office. Christin McMeley has joined as partner in the firm’s privacy and security practice group. She will advise companies in industries like privacy compliance, information governance, data...
Twitter's legal director is heading to the White House, but her role is currently unclear.
Another advisor/czar will join the Obama
White House, this time in the newly created position of “chief
privacy officer.”
From CNET:
President Obama has picked Nicole Wong, Twitter's legal
director, to be the White House's first chief...Show More Summary
CNET says: 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...Show More Summary
Twitter is losing its legal director Nicole Wong to the White House in the name of privacy. President Obama has tapped her as his newest Chief Privacy Officer.
Two months after appointing Todd Park as Chief Technology Officer, the White House has picked Nicole Wong for the newly created position of Chief Privacy Officer. Details about the job are still MIA, but she'll likely be working closely with Park. Show More Summary
Nicole Wong, a top lawyer with a reputation for standing up for liberty and free expression while at Google and Twitter, is headed to the White House.
The White House tapped Twitter legal director Nicole Wong as its first chief privacy officer, CNET reported. Wong, a Silicon Valley legal veteran, had only been at Twitter about six months; she was previously at Google for eight years.
It's not entirely clear what the White House chief privacy officer will do. Show More Summary
The White House has reportedly selected Twitter’s legal director, Nicole Wong, to be the administration’s first chief privacy officer. Prior to joining Twitter in 2012, Wong spent eight years at Google in the capacity of vice president and deputy general counsel to the Internet search giant. She received her law degree from the University of [...]
Twitter is now a lawyer short as the company’s Nicole Wong, its legal director, will leave the firm to become the nation’s first White House chief privacy office, CNET today reported.... Keep reading ?
Twitter legal director Nicole Wong has been battling internet litigation issues for years and now she’s working for the Obama Administration. Wang on Tuesday was chosen to be the country’s first Chief Privacy Officer. Nicole Wang joined Twitter five moths ago to head up the social networks legal team. Twitter has long fought to protect [...]
Nicole Wong, Twitter’s legal director and longtime veteran of Internet litigation issues, has been picked by the Obama Administration to be the nation’s first Chief Privacy officer, according to sources familiar with the matter. Wong joined Twitter approximately five months to head up its legal team, which has long dealt with First Amendment issues for [...]
Hunton & Williams has added a former FBI cybersecurity adviser to its Washington office. Paul Tiao has joined the firm as a partner in its privacy and data security practice. Previously, Tiao served as senior counselor to FBI Director Robert...
BERLIN (AP) — A German privacy watchdog has failed in its bid to stop Facebook from forcing users to register with their real names. Schleswig-Holstein state’s data protection office had argued that the ban on fake names breaches German privacy laws and European rules designed to protect free speech online. Show More Summary
Medical offices must train employees adequately about confidentiality rules to avoid legal risks, experts say.
America will never be a "no drone zone." There was a small glimmer of hope that these aerial threats to privacy would not come home to roost, but that all ended when Barack Obama took office and made drones the cornerstone of his war efforts.
America will never be a "no drone zone." There was a small glimmer of hope that these aerial threats to privacy would not come home to roost, but that all ended when Barack Obama took office and made drones the cornerstone of his war efforts.
The Office of the Vice President under Dick Cheney seems to cultivate secrecy as an end in itself, and not simply to protect national security or personal privacy. The OVP will not even confirm how many staff people work there, who they are, or much of anything else. “Cheney’s office refuses to give any details [...]Show More Summary