SAN FRANCISCO — Uber Technologies Inc. has hired former Apple Inc. privacy counsel Sabrina Ross to join the company’s growing legal team. Ross is a certified privacy professional and has experience in Internet and information law. This is her first week with the company.

Ross, who did not return a call for comment, will be working on the legal privacy issues surrounding Uber’s regulatory and policy efforts. She will be joining a team of privacy lawyers led by in-house counsel Katherine Tassi, a Facebook Inc. alum who came to Uber in August 2014. Ross is the fourth lawyer to join the privacy group.