About the IAPP

Daniel J. Weitzner is the Founding Director of the MIT Internet Policy Research Initiative and holds the 3Com Founders Senior Research Scientist chair at the MIT Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab. He teaches Internet public policy in MIT’s Electrical Engineering and Computer Science Department. He has led research on new accountable systems to improve privacy in large-scale data analytics platforms, and is developing new methods for cyber risk measurement. He is a faculty lead on the CSAIL-IPRI Future of Data Initiative pioneering new privacy architectures to provide traceability and accountability in large scale data sharing environments such as Open Banking. During the COVID-19 pandemic he served as a principal investigator of the MIT Private Automated Contact Tracing Initiative (PACT), which pioneered the COVID-19 exposure notification design now implemented by Apple and Google.

Weitzner was United States Deputy Chief Technology Officer for Internet Policy in the White House where he led initiatives on privacy, cybersecurity, copyright, and digital trade policies promoting the free flow of information. He was responsible for the Obama Administration’s Consumer Privacy Bill of Rights and the OECD Internet Policymaking Principles. Weitzner is co-founder and General Chair of the newly created ACM Annual Symposium on Computer Science and Law. Weitzner is a founder of the Center for Democracy and Technology, led the World Wide Web Consortium’s public policy activities, and was Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is Co-founder the General Chair of the annual ACM Symposium on Computer Science and Law. He is a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration (2019), was awarded the Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award (2016), is recipient of the International Association of Privacy Professionals Leadership Award (2013), and is member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a Senior Fellow at the German Marshall Fund.