Keith Enright, Google’s chief privacy officer, will leave the company this fall, after 13 years at the tech giant, said a spokesperson for the Alphabet-owned company.
The spokesperson added, ‘We regularly enhance our legal, regulatory and compliance efforts to meet new obligations and expectations. Our latest changes will increase the number of people working on regulatory compliance across the company’.
In September 2018, Enright was named Google’s privacy chief at a time when the company faced heavy government scrutiny over privacy issues.
Enright’s departure is a part of broader reorganization within the privacy teams, with the company making efforst to shift privacy policy to many individual product management teams, according to the company.
Enright wrote in a post on Linkedin, ‘After over 13 years at Google, I’m ready for a change, and will be moving on this fall, taking all that I’ve learned and trying something new’.
Enright’s departure comes as Google’s privacy face backlash. Last week, a document leak revealed secrets of search ranking algorithms. The document, spanning over 2,500 pages, was accidentally published by Google on GitHub on March 27 and later removed on May 7, but not before being indexed by a third-party service.
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