Jane Horvath

Jane Horvath, Co-Chair of Gibson Dunn’s Privacy, Cybersecurity and Data Innovation practice focuses on counseling involving privacy, cybersecurity and data strategies – particularly those at the forefront of new regulation – and advocacy and strategy with global regulators and policy makers on these same issues. She has extensive knowledge regarding encryption and related global laws and has been deeply involved in providing comments in response to the European Union Digital Markets Act and pending competition legislation in the United States, Japan and Australia. Jane has extensive experience implementing encryption into different product applications and defending encryption against U.S. and global government access requests. Additionally, she has an immense understanding of government surveillance and data localization laws.

Having previously served as Apple’s Chief Privacy Officer, Google’s Global Privacy Counsel and the DOJ’s first Chief Privacy Counsel and Civil Liberties Officer, among other positions, Jane draws from more than two decades of privacy and legal experience, offering unique in-house counsel and regulatory perspectives to counsel clients as they manage complex technical issues on a global regulatory scale.

JD, University of Virginia, 1991; BS, College of William & Mary, 1986.