Weitzner To Head NTIA Policy Shop

Apparently, Daniel Weitzner will be the next chief of the policy office at the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration. He served as a technology advisor to President Obama's campaign for president. He has been involved in the Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and co-directs MIT's Decentralized Information Group with Internet expert Tim Berners-Lee. Weitzner was a founder and deputy director for the Center for Democracy and Technology and has also been a senior staff counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation.