Finnegan hires former DHS chief privacy officer
New addition has held several high-level positions in the US government and the private sector.
Finnegan has announced that Lynn Parker Dupree has joined the firm as a partner and will lead the firm’s newly formed privacy practice.
Dupree previously served as the chief privacy officer at the US Department of Homeland Security. While there she was responsible for advising the secretary of Homeland Security on matters involving privacy for the department, and ensuring that the department complied with privacy laws, regulations, and federal guidance.
Her years of privacy experience provide her with the ability to offer privacy advice and guidance, and a keen understanding of the ways technology can be used to protect individual privacy.
“We are thrilled to have Dupree launch our new privacy practice,” said Erika Arner, Finnegan’s managing partner. “Privacy is a natural extension of Finnegan’s focus on protecting a company’s most important technology and intellectual property assets.”
“I am excited to join Finnegan and return to the private sector,” said Dupree. “I’m looking forward to building a practice focused on privacy compliance, governance, and counselling.”
Before working for DHS, Dupree held several high-level positions in government and in the private sector. She served as director of governance and controls at Capital One, where her work focused on the implementation of the California Consumer Privacy Act as well as enterprise-wide efforts to provide strategic governance and direction for data retention and data sharing with third parties.
Her previous government positions include serving as executive director at the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, an independent agency within the executive branch of the US government that advises the president and other senior executive branch officials on privacy and civil liberties as they relate terrorism prevention.
In this role, Dupree managed and set the work priorities of attorneys and analysts working at the intersection of privacy and emerging technologies. She also served in the White House as a deputy associate counsel for presidential personnel in the Obama administration.
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