Legal director Nicole Wong formally leaves the tech company to work as a deputy chief technology officer, specializing in Internet and privacy issues. June 20, 2013 4:39 PM PDT Nicole Wong, answering questions in front of the San Jose federal courthouse in 2006, when Google fought a legal battle against a broad Justice Department request for user search terms. (Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET) Nicole Wong, Twitter's former legal director of products, has joined the White House as a deputy chief technology officer, the Office of Science and Technology Policy confirmed Thursday to The Washington Post. CNET first reported in May that Wong was tapped to be the White House's first privacy officer. Wong, who worked as a vice president and deputy general counsel at Google prior to Twitter, tweeted about the change Thursday after saying goodbye to her Twitter colleagues on Wednesday. The Silicon Valley attorney has more than a decade of experience in copyright and privacy law. Donna Tam Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
Legal director Nicole Wong formally leaves the tech company to work as a deputy chief technology officer, specializing in Internet and privacy issues.
Nicole Wong, answering questions in front of the San Jose federal courthouse in 2006, when Google fought a legal battle against a broad Justice Department request for user search terms.
(Credit: Declan McCullagh/CNET)
Nicole Wong, Twitter's former legal director of products, has joined the White House as a deputy chief technology officer, the Office of Science and Technology Policy confirmed Thursday to The Washington Post.
CNET first reported in May that Wong was tapped to be the White House's first privacy officer. Wong, who worked as a vice president and deputy general counsel at Google prior to Twitter, tweeted about the change Thursday after saying goodbye to her Twitter colleagues on Wednesday. The Silicon Valley attorney has more than a decade of experience in copyright and privacy law.
Donna Tam is a staff writer for CNET News and a native of San Francisco. She enjoys feasting, merrymaking, checking her Gmail, and reading on her Kindle. Before landing at CNET, she wrote for daily newspapers, including the Oakland Tribune, The Spokesman-Review, and the Eureka Times-Standard.
