Ensuring compliance with national and global privacy requirements is an increasingly significant and progressively complex challenge for the modern organization. A great number of jurisdictions across the globe have enacted specific data privacy legislation. Not only do many of these data privacy laws have different requirements, but also a substantial number of them have extraterritorial reach – all of which adds up to complex compliance challenges for today’s businesses.

Goodwin Procter’s Privacy & Data Security Practice is devoted to helping clients manage these privacy requirements in a proactive, commercially aware manner. We advise clients on the requirements of privacy laws and regulations and develop company-wide compliance programs. We help clients audit data flows and develop and implement privacy policies. We also structure and negotiate a variety of agreements involving data privacy issues, including outsourcing and services agreements. Our practice in the privacy area is complemented by our experience advising companies in other areas involving risk management, such as mergers and acquisitions, technology contracting, intellectual property, e-commerce, Web site development and management, and on-line content management and licensing.

Our Privacy & Data Security Practice benefits greatly from our Knowledge Management Program, through which we maintain a comprehensive library of document templates, legislative materials and other resources. As a result of this program, our clients are able to benefit from the substantial experience and knowledge our attorneys have built in this area.

Members of our Privacy & Data Security Practice have authored numerous publications on data privacy, including the books Data Privacy in the Information Age, The Legal Guide to e-Business, and Data Security and Privacy Law – Combating Cyber Threats. They are also frequent speakers at national and international conferences and events concerning data privacy and are members of organizations such as the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Contacts: Deborah S. Birnbach and Jacqueline Klosek