Jan 12, 2021

He said in his tweet, “Working on business, ads integrity and trust at Facebook has been my most rewarding professional experience. While it’s been difficult and demanding work at times, the passionate and dedicated crew I worked with has accomplished a great deal in these last few years. What’s next? While I’m not going to be working on ads directly, it will be a part of what I work on as I will be staying in the tech/data/privacy space.” Leathern is, indeed, staying in the tech/data/privacy space, tweeting Tuesday that he will join Google’s Privacy and Data Protection Office to lead product development, as vice president of product, privacy and data protection. Some personal news! I’m happy to announce that I’m joining Google's Privacy and Data Protection Office to lead product development. (1/5) He tweeted, “I’m looking forward to working with Google’s team of privacy and security engineers who are focused on building advanced protections into the products you use every day. That work is guided by the principles of treating your information responsibly, protecting it with automatic security and keeping you in control with easy-to-use settings.” Leathern joined Facebook in February 2017 as director of product management after starting early Facebook Ads API (application-programming interface) partner Optimal .