How DeLaine Prado believes Google can avoid ‘race to the bottom’ on privacy

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🗓️ 9 October 2023

⏱️ 36 minutes

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Halimah DeLaine Prado is Google’s top lawyer, leading what she describes as an in-house, multidisciplinary law firm within the tech giant. As Google marks its 25th birthday this fall, it has rarely, if ever, been under more legal pressure around the world, including multiple antitrust and privacy trials in the US that could force changes to the crown jewels of its business – search, the Google Play app store and its digital ads ecosystem. During an extended conversation with MLex, DeLaine Prado talked about her hopes that Google can avoid “a race to the bottom” on privacy by nudging the ad industry toward a more privacy-protective future.

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0:00.0	Hi, welcome to another M-Lex podcast. My name is Mike Swift. I am M-Lex's chief global data privacy
0:17.2	and security correspondent. And I'm speaking to you today from San Francisco, California.
0:24.1	One of the great things about being based in Silicon Valley is that from time to time,
0:29.3	you can get the chance to sit across the table from some of the most important people and
0:34.4	some of the world's largest tech companies and ask them questions about their business.
0:39.3	And that's what I did recently with Google's top lawyer, Halima Delane Prado.
0:45.3	Delane Prado is Google's general counsel, a job she's held for about nearly four years now.
0:52.3	But she's actually been with Google much longer for about two
0:55.7	thirds of Google's 25-year lifetime. And there's rarely been a time in Google's history when
1:02.5	it's been under more legal pressure than it's under right now, facing litigation in both the
1:08.7	antitrust and privacy area across the country, as well as increased
1:15.0	regulation in Europe and the rest of the world. And we talked about many of those issues in my
1:22.7	conversation with Delane Prado. But we started out just talking about her job as general counsel. I think if I was
1:30.3	going to describe the role, I'll probably go a little bit more in the weeds and describe it as
1:34.8	effectively managing a law firm but from within a company. What does that mean? There's a bit of air
1:40.1	traffic control involved in part because you have multiple teams with different specialties. When you go to a law firm as an individual, you might have a need for someone
1:49.1	to help you write a will, for someone to help you draft a contract, for someone to help you
1:52.5	navigate a dispute or perhaps you've been sued. A law firm inside a company or an in-house
1:58.8	department, if you will, offers a multitude of services for the
2:02.1	business. I think the difference is, and what's unique about my job, is that it's not just sort of
2:08.9	the litigators who defend the company or the patent attorneys who might patent cutting-edge
2:14.6	technology, but there's also attorneys and legal professionals that help advise
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