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Comment: Google general counsel emerges as public face of tech giant's legal team

By Mike Swift ( October 2, 2023, 16:23 GMT | Comment) -- At a time when Silicon Valley is on a wartime footing against activist regulators in Washington and Brussels, Google's top lawyer, Halimah DeLaine Prado, doesn't project the ethos of a battlefield general. A veteran Googler who became the Internet giant's general counsel nearly four years ago, DeLaine Prado prefers to talk about compromise and "robust dialogue" with regulators. An architect of Google's recent US Supreme Court win in defense of Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act, DeLaine Prado says she hopes to nudge the digital ads industry toward better privacy protections.Halimah DeLaine Prado, Google’s general counsel, presides over an in-house law firm of about 1,400 lawyers and legal professionals, the group charged with defending the 25-year-old Internet giant at what is arguably its greatest moment of legal jeopardy....

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