Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance, Apple
Legal Specialist
The base pay range for this role is between $43.65 and $65.45/hr
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Office located in Cupertino, CA
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Personal technology company
1001+ employees
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The base pay range for this role is between $43.65 and $65.45/hr
More information about location
Office located in Cupertino, CA
1001+ employees
Company mission
Apple's mission is to bring the best user experience to its customers through its innovative hardware, software, and services.
Role
Who you are
- Prior experience responding to legal requests from law enforcement agencies, or in a law firm assisting attorneys with discovery and trials, but candidates with less experience who meet the other requirements will also be considered
- Bachelor’s Degree and a Paralegal Certificate or equivalent/higher
Desirable
- Ability to perform in an information sensitive environment and manage work activities within strict Data Protection, Privacy, and Security protocols
- Ability to analyze and process emergency and legal process documents and requests within departmental operating procedures
- Investigatory process experience, able to work independently with impeccable judgment
- Strong technical proficiency and ability to work effectively across multiple applications and databases, maintaining high levels of data accuracy and attention to detail in daily work
- Good analysis and decision-making capability, coupled with ability to reliably recognize non-standard and emergency requests and escalate accordingly
- Strong work ethic and exceptional collaboration skills
What the job involves
- The Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance Specialist performs a variety of tasks to support the Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance function within Apple.
- As a Specialist on this team your primary responsibility will be to process and respond to requests for assistance on emergencies
- You will also be responsible for processing and responding to requests, subpoenas, court orders and search warrants received from law enforcement agencies seeking access to customer information
- The Specialist performs legal and specialist tasks within the Privacy & Law Enforcement Compliance team and identifies and escalates non-standard and emergency requests appropriately
- This includes handling information requests, including document intake, research and processing
- The successful candidate will be self-motivated, reliable, and possesses the ability to resolve emergency and standard request issues in an effective and efficient manner
- Legal Specialists generally perform the key role tasks, but will also be required to support other tasks as needed
- Review, analyze, and respond to emergency requests received from law enforcement agencies for customer information within established procedures
- Participate in on-call emergency requests rotation after-hours, on weekends, and some holidays, working closely with other members of the Law Enforcement Compliance team to provide timely responses to global emergency requests
- Ability to be flexible and make adjustments to ensure team efficiency is met, and deliver consistently high-quality work product
- Clearly communicate process questions from law enforcement, government agencies, and internal/external parties, both in writing and over the phone
- Identify various types of legal process, e.g. subpoena, court order, search warrant using knowledgeable of the United States legal system
- Review and respond to large volume of time-sensitive standard requests received from law enforcement agencies for customer information which are handled in strict accordance with applicable law, Apple’s terms of service, privacy policy, and our law enforcement guidelines, and determining when to escalate non-standard requests
- Participate in holiday coverage of non-emergency legal requests and preservations
- Research relevant internal systems and retrieve appropriate information to include in emergency and standard-level responses
- Assist with the development of reports and presentations about the operational area and provide administrative support, as needed
Our take
With a market capitalisation that reached $3 trillion in 2022, Apple is the world's most valuable company. A vertically integrated approach and obsessive focus on the user experience have helped to make Apple one of the most successful companies in the world.
Since taking over at Apple, Tim Cook has been carefully curating the company's reputation as a champion of consumer privacy, trying to set the company apart from others that monetise their users' data.
The company even went as far as to introduce sweeping privacy changes which made it difficult to tailor ads to Apple’s 1bn+ iPhone users. This rocked the $400bn digital ads market, seriously harming the revenue of its bigger rivals in the lucrative industry and forcing them to rebuild their ad infrastructure.
Despite this, the company has been shaken by supply chain issues and moved a considerable amount of its manufacturing from China to India, and increased its Vietnam presence. This is because of multi-pronged production disruption in China, the second largest customer market for Apple, and triggered an estimated 10% revenue drop in the first quarter of 2023.
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Company benefits
- Everyone has different needs and schedules, and that’s why we offer medical plans that cover both physical and mental healthcare
- In addition, employees have the option to access medical professionals from almost anywhere and get free confidential counselling — virtual or in person
- You could also be eligible for help with fitness-related expenses
- Our medical coverage plans include family-friendly features such as fertility treatments
- Because we know there’s more than one way to bring a new child into your family, we support all kinds of new parents with paid leave and our gradual return-to-work programme
- You also get paid time away if you need to care for an ill family member and free guidance to help you find support for childcare, elderly care, legal referrals and more
- At Apple, we make sure women earn the same as men performing similar work. As part of that effort, your salary history is history — we won’t ask
- Every employee here also has the opportunity to become an Apple shareholder, because all are eligible for stock grants and also a discount when purchasing Apple stock
- To help you prepare for retirement, our pension can help you meet your savings goals. And to help you prepare for the unexpected, you’ll have the security of multiple forms of income protection
- Plan on developing both professionally and personally. Apple University creates classes, seminars and beyond-the-classroom tools that help employees understand Apple’s culture, organisation, values, and role in the world. You can sharpen general business and software skills through online classes
- For more formal education related to advancing your career at Apple, we’ll reimburse you for certain educational expenses, including tuition
- Whether you’re exploring personal pursuits, welcoming a new child or caring for a family member, rest assured that you’ll have paid time away when you need it most
- When you give money to an eligible organisation, we’ll match your donations one-for-one, so your contribution is doubled. And if you choose to donate your time, we’ll contribute US$25 for every hour you volunteer. Whether you donate time or money, Apple will match your contributions up to US$10,000 a year
- Get the world’s best prices on the world’s best products — Apple products. You’ll also get deals on great third-party accessories
- And there are services to help you manage life’s day-to-day tasks: dinner reservations, pet-sitters, shopping, personal travel, financial guidance and more
Company values
- We believe that we’re on the face of the Earth to make great products
- We believe in the simple, not the complex
- We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make
- We participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution
- We believe in saying no to thousands of projects so that we can really focus on the few that are truly important and meaningful to us
- We believe in deep collaboration and cross-pollination of our groups, which allow us to innovate in a way that others cannot
- We don’t settle for anything less than excellence in every group in the company, and we have the self-honesty to admit when we’re wrong and the courage to change
Company HQ
Cupertino, CA
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Leadership
Tim Cook
(CEO, not founder)Joined Apple in 1998 and held various senior roles before being promoted to CEO in 2011. Previously Spent 12 years with IBM, most recently as director of North American Fulfilment, where he led manufacturing and distribution functions for IBM’s Personal Computer Company in North and Latin America
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