All use of customer data by Apple requires sign-off by three ‘privacy czars’
With Apple making very clear how strongly it feels about the privacy of customer data through the FBI case, its no surprise that the issue is a hot-button within the company. A
Reuters piece shows just how serious Apple is when it comes to guarding personal data.
Any collection of Apple customer data requires sign-off from a committee of three privacy czars and a top executive, according to four former employees who worked on a variety of products that went through privacy vetting [
] The trio of experts [
] are both admired and feared.
One former employee said that debates over whether or not customer data can be used to improve a service usually take at least a month to settle, and some privacy issues are debated for more than a year before a final decision is reached. Key privacy issues are escalated all the way to Tim Cook.
It was a refusal to compromise on privacy that killed one of Apples products, says the piece, while others needed to be substantially reworked to achieve privacy sign-off
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http://9to5mac.com/2016/03/22/apple-customer-data-privacy/