news/GOOG/2023.02.07/Ex-Twitter privacy chief takes job at social media app BeReal.txt

(Reuters) - Damien Kieran, who resigned as Twitter
Inc's chief privacy officer in November after Elon
Musk took over the social media giant, has joined photo sharing
app-maker BeReal as its top lawyer.Kieran started Monday as general counsel at Paris-based
BeReal, he said in posts on LinkedIn and Twitter. "The product,
the people, and the potential lured me in," he wrote on
LinkedIn.Kieran and BeReal, whose popular social media app prompts
users to share a daily photo, did not immediately respond to
requests for comment.In addition to his role as chief privacy officer, Kieran was
also vice president and deputy general counsel at Twitter before
leaving in November, according to his LinkedIn account.He resigned along with other Twitter executives, including
chief information security officer Lea Kissner and chief
compliance officer Marianne Fogarty, two weeks after Musk
completed his $44 billion acquisition and became CEO.Musk fired Twitter's legal affairs and policy chief Vijaya
Gadde in October. Other top lawyers, including deputy general
counsel James Baker, have also been fired or resigned.Twitter did not immediately respond to a request for comment
Tuesday about its current legal staffing, and it is unclear how
many lawyers remain. Several in-house lawyers have taken on new
roles since November, according to LinkedIn updates.Kieran joined Twitter in 2016. He previously worked as an
associate at law firms Paul, Weiss, Rifkind, Wharton & Garrison
and Weil Gotshal & Manges and in the legal department at
Alphabet Inc's Google, according to his LinkedIn account.