Checks, a Mountain View, CA-based compliance intelligence platform, has announced its exit to Google and is now a fully integrated Google product.
Co-founded by Nia Castelly and Fergus Hurley, Checks leverages Google’s LLM AI technology to help mobile app developers and privacy points of contact quickly discover, communicate, and fix privacy problems in minutes, not hours, providing real-time visibility into product changes on a single dashboard. It works with companies like Miniclip, Rovio, Kongregate, Crayola and Yousician.
Google will be investing in Checks to make it generally available in the coming year to continue alleviating the burden of privacy compliance for app developers worldwide.
Nia Castelly is an expert in digital privacy, IP and product law, who holds a law degree from Columbia Law School. She has over 20 years of legal experience and prior to Checks, spent nearly 5 years as a legal advisor for the Google Play Developer Console, Policy, and Operations teams, and is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E).
Fergus Hurley was formerly a product manager on Google Play responsible for improving the experience of Android users around the world. Previously, he worked in Google Research on Google Assistant and other early stage AI products. Prior to Google he founded and sold a mobile app startup in Silicon Valley, called Focal Labs. He has a Masters from MIT in Electrical Engineering/Computer Science and a BE in Electrical Engineering from University College Cork, Ireland.
More details in Google’s blog post here
FinSMEs
04/05/2023