Anne Toth is a technology policy and privacy executive. She is currently the Head of Data Policy at the

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. Between 2014 and 2016 she was Vice President of Policy and Compliance Strategy and Vice President of People (Human Resources) at Slack. She has served on the

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of the

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(NAI) and the

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(FOSI). She also participated on the Future of Privacy Forum Advisory Board. Previously she was Head of Privacy for Google+ at Google and Chief Trust Officer at

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. Toth has testified before the

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and the

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on matters related to

online privacy Internet privacy involves the right or mandate of personal privacy concerning the storage, re-purposing, provision to third parties, and display of information pertaining to oneself via the Internet. Internet privacy is a subset of data privacy. P ...

and

data retention Data retention defines the policies of persistent data and records management for meeting legal and business data archival requirements. Although sometimes interchangeable, it is not to be confused with the Data Protection Act 1998. The differe ...

. She is a graduate of

Wellesley College Wellesley College is a Private university, private Women's colleges in the United States, historically women's Liberal arts colleges in the United States, liberal arts college in Wellesley, Massachusetts, United States. Founded in 1870 by Henr ...

and pursued a Masters of Public Policy at the

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