Jane Horvath, Apple's Chief Privacy Officer, talked about her first job at Baskin Robbins and best practices for current and secure data in an interview with Elle magazine Horvath is in charge of the company's privacy, policy and regulatory team at Apple. In this position, she advocates strong privacy rights, such as the dispute with the FBI over the iPhone back door in 2015, advising on new product features and supervising the legal issues of the technology giant.
In the interview, Horvath gave a series of career, privacy and security and other suggestions.
"I feel very lucky. I've been at these important moments in privacy; every day I wake up without knowing what I'm going to face. But I always feel like I've got the best of two worlds: I can be a citizen and work where privacy is really a fundamental human right," Horvath said
Horvath describes himself as "Forrest Gump of privacy". Although Apple It was her dream job, but she didn't start working for the [iPhone] immediately after she graduated from law school( https://apple.pvxt.net/c/1251234/435400/7639?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.apple.com%2Fcn%2Fiphone%2F ) Manufacturer's work. Instead, she started working at AOL, then for the U.S. Department of justice, and then Google.
As Apple's privacy director, Horvath has dealt with high-profile issues such as the San Bernardino case. In this regard, she pointed out that Apple would be happy to assist law enforcement if it was possible to protect its other customers.
"If we could turn on that phone without affecting all other phones, we would turn on it, but we couldn't, so we decided to protect all our customers and resist the government's demand for an operating system that would basically attack all other phones," she said
As for what ordinary users can do to protect themselves, Horvath said it is important to "read carefully" and "pay attention" to online choices. This includes websites, apps, and other privacy settings.
The apple privacy executive also talked about other topics in the interview, including the best career advice she received and how she managed her online identity.