Twitter’s Nicole Wong joins White House as deputy chief technology officer

Twitter executive Nicole Wong is joining the Obama Administration as deputy U.S. chief technology officer.

Wong, who has been Twitter’s legal director of products since November, will be working on Internet privacy and technology issues, according to a spokesman for the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy. She is widely admired in the industry as a leading thinker on free speech and privacy issues and has helped to shape how companies balance the need to comply with global speech laws and fulfill a role as emerging forums for global conversation.