Meet Nicole Wong, Obama's New Internet Privacy Czar

Brian Fung | Nextgov | May 8, 2013

President Obama has tapped a former Googler nicknamed "the Decider" to handle the administration's approach to Internet privacy.

Nicole Wong, who's spent the last six months as Twitter's legal director, will report to White House Chief Technology Officer Todd Park, according to CNET. While she won't be the nation's chief privacy officer as CNET initially reported, she'll be considered a senior adviser, someone familiar with the matter told me. 

Wong already has a truckload of issues to sort through, and she hasn't even started yet. Last month, the administration threatened to veto the controversial Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, better known as CISPA, on privacy grounds. Reforms to the way government is allowed to access your emails for forensic purposes are also headed to a full Senate vote.