Jane Horvath
Global Privacy Counsel
Google

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Jane Horvath is Google’s Global Privacy Counsel. Based in Mountain View, CA, and Washington, DC, she works with cross-functional teams to advance Google’s privacy principles and culture of respect for privacy by guiding the development of products and features that enhance user privacy and ensuring compliance with privacy laws around the world.

Prior to joining Google, Jane served as the Department of Justice’s first Chief Privacy and Civil Liberties Officer. There she was responsible for coordinating the DOJ’s privacy and civil liberties protection work. At the DOJ, Jane was a member of the High Level Contact Group and leader of the U.S. delegation of experts tasked with exploring common ground between the European Union’s Third Pillar data protection principles and U.S. Federal privacy laws. Prior to joining the DOJ, Jane was the Washington office director of the United Kingdom-based consulting firm Privacy Laws & Business where she advised U.S. companies on European privacy law compliance. Prior to that, she was an Assistant General Counsel at AOL, and in that capacity helped draft the company’s first privacy policies, and the General Counsel of Digital City Inc., an AOL subsidiary.

Jane is a member of the Board of Directors of the International Association of Privacy Professionals. Jane holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Virginia.