About the IAPP

Alison Howard is a senior attorney at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, Washington. She is the privacy attorney for such Microsoft products and services as Xbox, Xbox LIVE, Kinect, Surface and Microsoft account. Before joining Microsoft, she was an associate at Davis WrightTremaine LLP in Seattle. She received her J.D. fromBoalt Hall School of Law at the University of California-Berkeley, her M.A. in international journalism from the University of Southern California and her B.A. in journalism from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.