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Mark is currently a Product Policy Counsel and Manager for Google. His team leads product policy on Platforms and Devices, Health and Home, Google's various Research and Labs divisions, Google's API privacy and security program, Gen AI Hardware, and AI/ML Developer Products. This includes products like Fitbit, AI Studio, TensorFlow, and Google Photos. It also includes leading xfn work on foundational models, Gen AI/ML APIs, data portability, and Gen AI abuse/content policies. More Recently, he's been leading the drafting of Google's Gen AI Prohibited Use Policy and focused on Google's Gen AI API privacy/security policies touching on fairness, adversarial testing, third party data transfers, and alignment issues.

Previously he was Counsel to Board Member Travis LeBlanc on the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency in the Executive Branch. Before coming in with the Biden Administration, he was a Policy Counsel at Google focusing on developer products, API privacy and security, and consumer health products. This included being a core team member of the Fitbit acquisition and unifying Google's user generated content policies. Mark was also the Civil Liberties Legislative Lead at the Electronic Frontier Foundation where he specialized on consumer privacy issues, cybersecurity, electronic surveillance, and national security law. He graduated from Berkeley Law School, Reed College, and spent a year abroad at the University of Oxford (Wadham College). He has been quoted in a wide range of publications including the Guardian, the New York Times, and the Economist.

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