Jane Horvath, Apple Inc.’s chief privacy officer, will soon leave the business to work at a law firm, according to a report by Bloomberg News on Tuesday, which cited people familiar with the situation. According to the story, Horvath, who joined Apple in 2011, will work for Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher.
The iPhone maker’s top privacy executive, who is also a lawyer, had previously served in key privacy roles at Alphabet Inc’s Google the U.S. Department of Justice, as per her LinkedIn profile.
Horvath was hired to formalize privacy practices after the 2011 “locationgate” scandal, in which iPhones were found to be gathering information about users’ whereabouts.
The reported move by Horvath also comes after Apple upended the digital ad industry by introducing new iPhone privacy controls last year, which hurt the ability for firms like Meta and Snap to target and measure ads on their apps.
Apple did not immediately respond to a Reuters’ request for comment. (Reporting by Mrinmay Dey in Bengaluru; editing by Uttaresh.V)
