Bio

Jon Frankel counsels emerging and established technology and media companies, as well as venture capitalists and entrepreneurs, on data privacy, protection and security, e-commerce, artificial intelligence, advertising, marketing, and litigation matters. He assists clients in generating online revenue, protecting intellectual property, mitigating risks, and adapting their business models to evolving technology laws and best practices.

Jon counsels companies on consumer protection and corporate compliance matters, including domestic and international data protection and trans-border data transfers, children’s, teens and educational privacy, behavioral and targeted advertising, online promotions, email and SMS marketing, user-generated content, electronic contracts and signatures, and the use of various sensitive personal data. He regularly helps companies comply with a wide variety of applicable federal and state laws, including the CCPA, GDPR, TCPA, COPPA, VPPA, HIPAA, GLBA and FCRA, as well Section 5 of the FTC Act and State UDAP laws.

Leveraging his background as a litigator and trial attorney in his incident response practice, Jon has extensive experience guiding companies of all sizes to through complex cybersecurity incidents. He manages all aspects of response efforts across sectors, overseeing containment, forensic investigations, regulatory reporting, and public communications. His experience spans ransomware, business email compromise, network intrusions, insider threats, data theft, and accidental disclosures. Jon also represents clients in state and federal court proceedings, multi-state attorney general investigations, and before federal and state regulators, including the Federal Trade Commission and Federal Communications Commission.

Before joining ZwillGen, Jon was a partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Bingham McCutchen LLP, where he co-chaired the Privacy and Security Group and was a member of its Telecommunications, Media, and Technology group.