Susan Lyon-Hintze

Susan Lyon-Hintze has provided legal counsel to tech clients for 19+ years - 14 years of which have been focused exclusively on the area of privacy and security. She advises clients from start-ups to major technology, e-commerce, advertising, media, and mobile companies on a wide range of global data protection issues. Susan has extensive experience defending clients before data protection regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission and state Attorneys General. Ms. Lyon-Hintze formerly served as co-chair of Cooley LLP's privacy group and co-lead of Perkins Coie's privacy group. She also served as privacy counsel with Microsoft Corp., where she advised IT security, sales and marketing, X-Box, HR, and legislative policy teams. Prior to Microsoft she served as lead privacy counsel at Dell, Inc. Susan regularly speaks and writes on privacy issues and is an advisor to the American Law Institute’s project on Information Privacy Principles.