According to those familiar with the matter, Apple has recruited Sandy Parakilas to join its privacy team as a product manager, the Financial Times reports. Previously, Parakilas monitored software developers’ privacy and policy compliance at Facebook, warned of potentially damaging consequences of the company’s data-sharing policies, and gave evidence at the U.K. Parliament’s Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Committee where he stated the company’s data protection policies were “far outside the bounds of what should have been allowed” between 2010 and 2014. Parakilas also spent four years at Uber and with the Center for Humane Technology as its chief strategy officer. (Registration may be required to access this story.)
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