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Mark is currently a Product Policy Counsel for Google, leading product policy on Google's API privacy and security program and Gen AI/ML products. This includes products like AI Studio, Google Labs (Alphabet's in-house incubators), Workspace, TensorFlow, Code Complete, and Fitbit. His work also includes leading xfn work in foundational models, Gen AI/ML APIs, data portability, and Gen AI abuse/content policies. Most recently he’s been focused on Gen AI API privacy/security, fairness, adversarial testing, 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, APIs, consumer health products, and consumer privacy and security issues. 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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