Jon Neiditz leads the Big Data, Privacy and Information Security Practice at leading information law firm Kilpatrick Townsend & Stockton LLP, co-chairs the Data Protection Committee of the International Technology Law Association (ITechLaw), and is listed as one of the Best Lawyers in America in Information Management Law. One of the first lawyers to focus on big data, Jon has led such practices at other major law and consulting firms, served as a senior advisor in government, chaired a number of nonprofit organizations, and managed in-house compliance initiatives. Examples of Jon’s work include:

Regular management of responses to data security breaches -- including the largest governmental data breach on record -- that turn these incidents not into crises but into trust-building customer service encounters:
Through handling multiple breaches every week since 2005, he has developed an approach that has helped his clients avoid customer losses, brand damage and lawsuits, and even improve customer trust following breaches
This approach is proving critical as the worldwide rapid increase in the frequency and sophistication of both attacks and their detection is making data breaches and security fundamental components of customer relationship management
Global privacy and information security counsel to private and public sector organizations
Assistance in formulating “big data” plans, including:
Contracts that value and protect newly-defined data assets in new ways, and
Records, information management and electronic communications programs that combine defensible disposal of many types of data with “lakes” of big data
Assistance in “privacy by design” initiatives in the development of hardware and software and their user interfaces
Assistance in innovation in cloud computing, mobile payments, mobile health, electronic documents and records, and many other areas of sustaining and disruptive innovation.