About the IAPP

Hilary Lane is an experienced privacy and data security adviser, media lawyer, and litigator. Her practice focuses on privacy and data security, providing pragmatic, strategic, business-savvy advice to help clients navigate the increasingly complex global privacy landscape. 

Hilary previously served as the Chief Privacy Officer at NBCUniversal—where she advised on privacy, data strategy, and cybersecurity, built and managed the global privacy program and team, and counseled on data products, initiatives and transactions—as well as in private practice as outside counsel to media and entertainment, consumer products, and technology companies.

Drawing on this experience, Hilary counsels clients on privacy requirements, including the ever-expanding patchwork of state consumer privacy laws; helps develop and implement privacy programs, processes, and procedures to meet those requirements efficiently; provides guidance on cybersecurity incident preparedness and response; and advises on privacy and security issues in commercial transactions. She also counsels on mitigating litigation risk arising out of website tracking technologies, and has successfully defended data privacy class actions and mass arbitrations alleging violations of the Video Privacy Protection Act, wiretapping statutes, and other state laws based on the alleged use of these tracking tools.

In media and entertainment law, Hilary has advised leading entertainment companies, film and television studios, news agencies, and publishers on an array of issues critical to the success of their businesses.

Hilary is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP) and a past member of the IAPP Advisory Board.