Ahmed Eissa

Ahmed counsels and represents clients on a variety of data-related legal issues, leveraging his technical background to focus on compliance with emerging privacy and artificial intelligence laws, alternative data acquisition and due diligence, and third-party subpoena response. He has professional experience with web scraping, data analysis, web development, and open-source intelligence, and is proficient in Python programming. This experience allows him to bridge the gap with business and product teams, engineers, and executives in his legal practice.

Ahmed guides clients through the patchwork of consumer privacy and artificial intelligence laws with risk-based approaches to product and app development, including advising on data collection practices, privacy policies, terms of service, vendor contracting, and digital marketing. He seeks a deep technical understanding of his clients’ products and services to provide actionable and practical advice that reflects the regulatory landscape.

He also works extensively with companies to mitigate risks associated with acquiring alternative data. In his alternative data practice, he performs due diligence on data vendors, drafts alternative data and web scraping policies, and tracks developments from courts and regulators on web scraping, artificial intelligence, and material non-public information (MNPI) to reduce clients’ legal exposure in operationalizing new streams of data in financial analysis.

In his subpoena and law enforcement response practice, Ahmed advises clients on their obligations in responding to state and federal third-party subpoenas, civil investigative demands, administrative summons, and search warrants throughout the country. These matters routinely involve counseling under the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and Stored Communications Act (SCA).

Ahmed previously served as a Fellow at ZwillGen. Prior to joining ZwillGen, he worked for six years as a threat intelligence analyst at Amazon Web Services, ZeroFox, and other security-focused technology companies where he tracked and investigated data breaches, phishing and malware campaigns, and worked to prevent and detect insider threats.

Ahmed received his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law, where he received a certificate in Cybersecurity & Crisis Management, served as an editor on the Journal of Business & Technology Law, and was the President of the Cyber Law & Data Privacy Association.

Outside of work, Ahmed enjoys baking bread and pastry, and cycling.