Colleen Theresa Brown

Practice Areas

COLLEEN THERESA BROWN handles privacy, cybersecurity, data protection, and emerging technology issues for a diverse group of companies, including those in the financial, life sciences, technology, energy, telecommunications, media, retail, and manufacturing sectors. She has focused her practice on digital risk management. This includes compliance, governance, investigations, litigation and regulatory enforcement, and crisis management relating to privacy, data rights, digital safety, AI, cybersecurity, and data breaches.

Colleen is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)/United States and a certified Artificial Intelligence Governance Professional (AIGP) through the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP). She is on the Advisory Boards of the Electronic Privacy Information Center and the Future of Privacy Forum in her personal capacity. Colleen's counseling experience includes cyber risk and data breach management, corporate data protection and privacy compliance programs, international data protection and cross-border transfer, applied and generative Artificial Intelligence, Big Data, Internet of Things, electronic surveillance, trade secrets, social media, cloud computing, and online brand protection. She also has significant experience in counseling and strategy under CAN-SPAM, CCPA, CFAA, COPPA, ECPA, ESIGN, FCRA, FOIA, GDPR, GLBA, HIPAA, the Privacy Act, TCPA, Unfair and Deceptive Trade Practices, state privacy laws, and common law claims including defamation and privacy torts, privacy regulations and enforcement in federal agencies including the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Federal Communications Commission, and industry self-regulation on privacy matters, including those related to online advertising and PCI DSS compliance.