Microsoft has tapped a former US Federal Trade Commission member to lead its policy efforts on privacy and data protection.
Julie Brill was appointed by former President Barack Obama to the governing council of the consumer protection and antitrust regulator in 2010 after decades spent working on those issues at the state level. She stepped down in 2016, joining law firm Hogan Lovells in Washington, DC.
At Microsoft, she will lead the teams setting company policy on privacy, data protection and cybersecurity, and will work with government officials on those issues. Her mandate will include compliance with the European Union’s sweeping data-protection regulations set to take effect next year.
Microsoft has been one of the more vocal companies in the technology industry on internet-age policy issues, from jurisdiction over data stored in the cloud to defense against cyberattacks.
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