Apple will make its first official appearance at the CES trade show in 30 years, as Jane Horvath, Apple’s senior director of global privacy, is slated to take part in a privacy-focused roundtable at CES in January.
Horvath will join Facebook VP of Public Policy and Chief Privacy Offer for Policy Erin Egan, Procter & Gamble Company Global Privacy Officer Susan Shook and Federal Trade Commission Commissioner Rebecca Slaughter in a discussion moderated by Rajeev Chand, Partner and Head of Research at Wing Venture Capital.
Privacy is now a strategic imperative for all consumer businesses. “The future is private” (Facebook); “Privacy is a human right” (Apple); and “a more private web” (Google). How do companies build privacy at scale? Will regulation be a fragmented patchwork? Most importantly, what do consumers want?
Horvath has been Apple’s top privacy officer since September 2011. She first came to the attention of the public when she attended a “spy summit” to discuss data privacy and mass surveillance issues in 2015. Prior to her hiring at Apple, Horvath acted as Google’s Global Privacy Counsel.
The last time an Apple executive took the stage at CES was in 1992 in Chicago (the original location for CES), when then-CEO John Sculley unveiled the Newton.