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Google is creating a privacy engineering hub and safety research fund in Europe

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Google is creating a privacy engineering hub and safety research fund in Europe

Google today announced plans to create a Google Safety Engineering Center in Munich, where an expanded team of engineers will oversee creation of privacy features across all of the company’s products.

In tandem with that effort, Google will also launch the Google.org Impact Challenge on Safety to fund organizations working on digital safety issues.

A blog post attributed to Google CEO Sundar Pichai explained that the company will double the number of privacy engineers in Munich, where it already had a team working on such issues.

“The team will work hand in hand with privacy specialists in Google offices across Europe and globally, and the products built there will be used around the world,” Pichai wrote.

The announcement comes just a couple of weeks before the first anniversary of Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation.

Since going into effect May 25, 2018, GDPR continues to be a hotly debated regulatory move, praised by some as a tough consumer protection standard and condemned by others as an impediment to innovation.

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