A report from 9To5Mac states Jane Horvath, Chief Privacy Officer of Apple, will be leaving the company as she sets to work for a Los Angeles law firm named Gibson, Dunn, and Crutcher LLP.
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LAS VEGAS, NEVADA - JANUARY 07: Apple Senior Director, Global Privacy Jane Horvath participates in a privacy roundtable at CES 2020 at the Las Vegas Convention Center on January 7, 2020 in Las Vegas, Nevada. CES, the world's largest annual consumer technology trade show, runs through January 10 and features about 4,500 exhibitors showing off their latest products and services to more than 170,000 attendees.
This has also worked with Apple in the past, as the company faced a lawsuit against Epic Games in 2020 regarding anti-competitive actions.
An internal memo was given to Apple's legal department as she departs from the company for formality, based on a report from Bloomberg. The company is still undecided about who will be the replacement for the role.
Legal Issues that She Handled
As the company lost one of its chief executives, Apple did not confirm the news. From her first job in Basin-Robbins, she is now responsible for advocating the tech giant's privacy rights, counseling new product features, and taking control of legal issues in general.
Horvath served both for Google and the US Department of Justice in a similar position. She was hired by Apple to work on formalizing the privacy matters regarding the location-tracking scandal that happened in 2011.
She also represented the company with the FBI during the San Bernardino shooting, where a certain iPhone needed to unlock by the company for an investigation.
The negotiations with Capitol Hill and trade groups were also supervised by her alongside her compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation or GDPR in Europe.
At the 15th Annual Computers, Privacy, & Data Protection Conference that was held in Brussels last May, Horvath was part of the panel that Apple organized called "The Future of Privacy: How is Multistakeholderism Shaping Privacy Worldwide?".
In an interview for Elle, the executive officer stated that, fortunately, she was present during the legal moments of the company regarding privacy matters without knowing what she will face next in the future. She added, "I get to do civil liberties and work somewhere that really looks at privacy as a fundamental human right."
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The company has been dealing with a lot of legal issues, including privacy matters. Just this month, $14 million was settled after Apple was accused of breaching the iCloud's terms and conditions for storing data of its users on other servers outside the company's storage service.
The accusation was denied by the company, yet the agreement to pay the settlement was made for Apple to avoid taking this issue to court. Users who are eligible are the ones subscribed on iCloud from September 16, 2015, to January 31, 2016.
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Written by Inno Flores
