All use of customer data by Apple requires sign-off by three ‘privacy czars’; debates can take a year<div class="feat-image">
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<p>With Apple making very clear how strongly it feels about the privacy of customer data through the <a href="
http://9to5mac.com/tag/fbi/" target="_blank">FBI case[/url], it’s no surprise that the issue is a hot-button within the company. A
<a href="http://www.reuters.com/article/us-apple-encryption-privacy-insight-idUSKCN0WN0BO" target="_blank">Reuters[/url] piece shows just how serious Apple is when it comes to guarding personal data.</p>
<p class="p1"><span class="s1">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 [
…] </span><span class="s1">The trio of experts […] are both admired and feared.</span></p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>It was a refusal to compromise on privacy that killed one of Apple’s products, says the piece, while others needed to be substantially reworked to achieve privacy sign-off …</p>
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All use of customer data by Apple requires sign-off by three ‘privacy czars’; debates can take a year
