( CNN ) -- The White House is reportedly considering hiring Twitter 's Nicole Wong as part of its legal team to focus on privacy issues , though a final decision on the position has not yet been made . Wong started at Twitter just seven months ago as the legal director for Twitter 's products team . According to multiple news reports , Wong is a leading contender for the position of senior adviser to Todd Park , the United States chief technology officer . Previously , Wong worked at Google for eight years as a vice president and deputy general counsel . Before that , she was a partner at the law firm Perkins Coie . The White House has not confirmed the hire , and neither the White House nor Twitter immediately returned requests Tuesday for comment . The news was first reported Tuesday by tech-news site CNET . The UC-Berkeley graduate is no stranger to politically volatile topics . During her time at Google , Wong was in charge of censorship issues for products such as YouTube , deciding whether controversial videos uploaded to the service should be blocked from certain countries ' search results . A 2008 New York Times article described the work of Wong 's team at Google in depth : . `` They decide what controversial material does and does n't appear on the local search engines that Google maintains in many countries in the world , as well as on Google.com . As a result , Wong and her colleagues arguably have more influence over the contours of online expression than anyone else on the planet . '' If chosen for the new position , Wong would potentially work directly under Park , who started with the White House in 2012 and is the second person to hold the title of U.S. CTO .
Twitter lawyer Nicole Wong is being hired as a privacy adviser , news reports say . Comment: Wong will be advising Todd Park , chief technology officer . Neither the White House nor Twitter has responded .