White House Taps Twitter Legal Vet as Nation’s First Chief Privacy Officer

Apparently, 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, a new position in the White House, created by the Obama Administration.

Wong joined Twitter approximately five months ago to head up its legal team, which has long dealt with First Amendment issues for the microblogging service. Previous to her time at Twitter, Wong spearheaded decisions at Google on whether certain user-generated content would remain up on YouTube and other Google-owned applications. She also dealt much in litigation with China and its government’s decisions to censor Google search content in 2010.