Privacy commitment is paramount concern for us, says Google’s Keith Enright

Alphabet Inc-owned Google is moving towards a regime of retaining as little customer information as possible so that only the required data can be shared with law enforcement agencies based on their legal requests, the company’s chief privacy officer Keith Enright said.

Responding to a question from the Economic Times, Enright said that following this principle also meant reducing the risk in case of a cybersecurity incident.

“We maintain that the privacy commitment that we make to our users is of paramount concern for us, so we do not want to overshare. When we do share (data), we want it to be limited to the requirements that are imposed by the jurisdiction in which our services are operating,” Enright said at a select media briefing.