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Twitter Legal Director Nicole Wong Officially Joins White House as Deputy CTO

Nicole Wong, former director of legal products at Twitter, will depart the company to join the Obama administration as deputy U.S. chief technology officer, the White House said in a statement on Thursday. As AllThingsD reported previously, Wong will be working on privacy and technology issues under Todd Park, the acting U.S. chief technology officer. Previous to her time at Twitter, Wong spent years at Google working on issues around user-generated content and censorship on YouTube.

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I think the NSA has a job to do and we need the NSA. But as (physicist) Robert Oppenheimer said, “When you see something that is technically sweet, you go ahead and do it and argue about what to do about it only after you’ve had your technical success. That is the way it was with the atomic bomb.”

— Phil Zimmerman, PGP inventor and Silent Circle co-founder, in an interview with Om Malik