Privacy Law Essentials for Digital Advertising Professionals

Natalie specialises in all things privacy, AI and digital regulation. She started her legal career in-house but has spent the last 10+ years in private practice, including at a leading international data protection team. Natalie provides pragmatic advice on the full spectrum of data and privacy issues, with particular expertise in social media, adtech and gaming.

When not being mum to her two littles, Natalie enjoys running, pilates, weights, jazz and a glass of wine in front of Netflix

Sam Castic is a partner with Hintze Law with 15 years of global privacy and cybersecurity experience. Sam counsels e-commerce, fintech, technology, telecom, social media, retail, and advertising clients from early-stage startups to the biggest global companies, on privacy and data protection. Sam uses his experience of having led privacy teams and programs at two large companies to provide clients with practical and actionable strategies for building, maturing, operationalizing, and maintaining privacy programs that successfully navigate changing technology, laws, and expectations. Sam offers practical strategies for earning and preserving customer trust; innovating and bringing products and services to market that meet privacy objectives; structuring effective and efficient privacy teams, programs, and operations; developing and executing personal data breach response capabilities; and negotiating and developing repeatable processes for resolving data processing and transfer agreements.

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Susan Hintze is Managing Partner at Hintze Law PLLC and a Westin Emeritus Fellow with the International Association of Privacy Professionals.

Susan has provided legal counsel to tech and e-commerce clients for over 20 years, of which, 18 years have been focused exclusively in the area of privacy and security. She advises e-commerce, technology, analytics, advertising, media, gaming, and mobile companies on a wide range of U.S. and international privacy and data security issues. 

Representative areas of expertise include CAN-SPAM, the FTC Act, Children’s Online Privacy Protections Act (COPPA), California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA), Video Privacy Protection Act (VPPA), SMS and telemarketing laws, data security and data breach notice obligations, behavioral targeting and advertising, online and mobile tracking and monitoring using automatic tracking technology, facial recognition and biometrics, cloud computing strategy, AI, robotics, drones, Big Data, Internet of Things, and legislative and regulatory policy and outreach.

Ms. Hintze formerly served as co-chair of Cooley LLP’s privacy group and co-lead of Perkins Coie’s privacy group. She also gained valuable in-house experience as privacy counsel with Microsoft Corp., where she advised IT security, global sales and marketing, X-Box, HR, and legislative policy teams on privacy, data security, and online safety issues. Prior to Microsoft she served as lead privacy counsel at Dell, Inc.

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