Daniel Weitzner
Deputy Director
Center for Democracy and Technology

As Deputy Director, Daniel Weitzner is responsible for advocacy and research on the policies related to the National Information Infrastructure, the Internet, structuring open access, common carriage regimes for advanced communications networks, and privacy concerns raised by new digital technologies. Mr. Weitzner has drafted open platform network access included in the telecommunications reform bill passed by the House of Representatives in 1994 and developed the rationale for the expanded privacy protections for email transactional informational enacted by Congress last year.

The Center for Democracy and Technology was founded in 1994 by Jerry Berman, Janlori Goldman, and Daniel Weitzner. Its mission is to develop public policy solutions that advance constitutional civil liberties and democratic values in new computer and communications media. Before founding the Center, Mr. Weitzner was the Deputy Policy Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation.

Daniel Weitzner earned his J.D. from the Buffalo Law School and a B.A. from Swarthmore College.