Bret Cohen

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Hogan Lovells

Partner, Privacy and Cybersecurity Practice

Bret Cohen practices in the areas of privacy, cybersecurity, and consumer protection. He counsels clients on a wide variety of privacy, advertising, and other consumer protection matters including compliance with the FTC Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act, security and privacy incident remediation and notification, and cross-border data transfers including U.S.-EU Safe Harbor certification.

Bret has worked on four Hogan Lovells White Papers published over the past two years analyzing various aspects of government access to private sector data: (1) A Global Reality: Governmental Access to Data in the Cloud (2012), comparing the mechanisms international governments can use to access Cloud data during the course of ordinary law enforcement activities; (2) A Sober Look at National Security Access to Data in the Cloud (2013), comparing the mechanisms international governments can use to access sensitive foreign intelligence information; (3) An Analysis of Service Provider Transparency Reports on Government Requests for Data (2013), comparing the number of government access requests to Cloud service providers who have published those numbers; and (4) Individual Rights to Challenge Government Access to Data in the Cloud (2013), comparing the ability of citizens and non-citizens to challenge government access to data in the U.S., France, Germany, the UK, and Australia.

Bret received his JD from The George Washington University Law School, and has degrees in computer science and information systems from the University of Maryland.

 

Contributions by Bret Cohen

  • European and UK Enforcement Trends — the Regulators’ Perspective
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2024
  • Roadmap to a Unified State Privacy Law Compliance Program
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2023
  • Developing a Privacy-Centric, Data-Driven Model for Personalization and Analysis
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2022
  • Evaluating Algorithms: Incorporating Privacy and Ethics into AI/ML Projects
    Speaker at IAPP Global Privacy Summit 2022
  • Building a Data Ethics Program to Enable Trusted Data Practices
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2021
  • International Transfer of EU Personal Data post-'Schrems II'
    Speaker at Virtual Raleigh/Durham KnowledgeNet: December 9, 2020
  • We Love You, You’re Perfect, Now Change: Stories of Data Protection in M&A
    Web Conference Speaker
  • Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2020 - Canceled
  • What does the CCPA's 'purpose limitation' mean for businesses?
    The Privacy Advisor
  • Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2020 - Cancelled
  • From GDPR to CCPA and Beyond: Adapting a GDPR Programme for Global Privacy Laws
    Speaker at IAPP Europe Data Protection Congress 2019
  • Searching for Compatible Uses in a Post-GDPR, Post-CCPA World
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019
  • We Have to Do it Again? Vendor Management and Contracting After the CCPA
    Speaker at IAPP Privacy. Security. Risk. 2019
  • Privacy Bar Section Forum
    Forum Speaker at Global Privacy Summit 2019
  • Privacy Bar Section Forum
    Forum Speaker at Global Privacy Summit 2019