Mozilla hires former Google executive as its new policy and security chief

Mozillahas hired Alan Davidson, a former Commerce Dept. digital director, as its new global policy chief.
The Firefox browser maker said Tuesday that the former civil servant, who oversaw internet policy and cybersecurity towards the end of Obama’s presidential tenure, will return Mozilla in the new role after last year serving as its tech policy fellow. Davidson also served as Google’s policy chief amid an uproar in 2011 about the search giant’s location tracking, and later as