About the IAPP

Susan Lyon-Hintze is Partner and Founder of Hintze Law PLLC, a law firm focused exclusively on privacy and security law matters. Ms. Lyon-Hintze[1] counsels clients from start-ups to large tech and e-commerce companies on international data protection issues. Her work includes defending companies on matters before the FTC and other regulators, providing strategic counsel to companies and trade associations on industry standards and regulatory and legislative policy, conducting privacy due diligence in corporate transactions, helping clients build and maintain their privacy and security programs, conducting privacy reviews, and leading breach response. 

Ms. Lyon-Hintze formerly served as in-house privacy counsel with Microsoft Corp. Prior to Microsoft she was lead privacy counsel at Dell, Inc. Her last big law job was co-chair of Cooley’s privacy and security group.

Ms. Lyon-Hintze is a long-time member of the International Association of Privacy Professionals, a member of IAPP’s Training Advisory Board, and an active Advisory Board Member to the American Law Institute’s Restatement Third on Information Privacy Principles. 

[1] Pronounced LIE-in-HINT-zee.