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The Washington Post reports on U.S. Deputy CTO Nicole Wong leaving the White House:
U.S. Deputy Chief Technology Officer Nicole Wong, who focused on privacy and big data issues, is leaving the White House a little more than a year after joining the Obama administration. Wong's last day is Friday; she will return to California where her family lives, the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy said in a statement.
Prior to joining the Obama administration, Wong was director of legal products at Twitter and deputy general counsel at Google. At Google, she earned the nickname "The Decider" - a reference to the role she took in helping to determine when to censor results on the company’s search engine or clips on its YouTube video service that governments claimed ran afoul of local laws.
(Score: 5, Interesting) by frojack on Sunday August 17 2014, @11:28PM
It was purely a PR stunt.
Tsars/Czars (not an official term by any means) have some actual power and are given authority over some parts of government. They are typically "Director of an Office", or "Assistant Secretary" of a cabinet level agency. Rarely are they powerless go-between guys.
Being appointed "Deputy Chief Technology Officer" was our first clue she would have no power at all, and it took her a year to realize she was just wall-paper.
Oh, and the life long NDAs that come with such a job are guaranteed to keep her mouth shut.
No, you are mistaken. I've always had this sig.