Susan Hintze's Representative Experience  

• Defends companies from start-ups to large corporations in privacy and security investigations and actions brought by the Federal Trade Commission (FTC), state attorneys general and consumer agencies, and international data protection authorities, including representation of:

  • HTC in FTC investigation, settlement, and order compliance of alleged mobile security vulnerabilities;

  • AdMob mobile ad platform in FTC privacy investigation relating to Google acquisition.

• Represented clients in successful confidential resolution without settlement of CAN-SPAM, FTC Act and Children's Online Privacy Protection Act federal regulatory investigations.

• Guides clients through data security breach response remediation and notification obligations.

• Drafted comments to FTC and Department of Commerce privacy reports on behalf of CTIA, the Wireless Association.

• Contributed to drafting input into numerous privacy laws including state breach notice laws, anti-spam laws, anti-spyware laws, and anti-phishing laws.

• Develops employee and customer privacy and security policies, programs, risk assessments, and training, including safe harbor programs, for numerous technology and retail clients.

• Conducts privacy and data security risk due diligence for mergers and acquisitions.

• Advises clients on cloud computing data protection issues and strategy.

• Counsels clients on privacy issues relating to behavioral targeting and advertising, online and mobile tracking and monitoring using automatic tracking technology such as IP address, cookies, Web beacons, location-based services and the like and on related issues of anonymization, aggregation and de-identification.

• Provides frequent counsel on global strategy for privacy compliance including in the area of marketing and sales and regarding EU to U.S. data transfers.