Heidi Salow has been handling cutting-edge issues involving privacy and data security, intellectual property and e-commerce for much of her 14+-year career. In addition to her experience in helping companies achieve compliance with a host of complex privacy, data security, intellectual property and e-commerce laws, she has extensive experience in legislative advocacy, commercial transactions and litigation.

Prior to joining DLA Piper, Ms. Salow was senior counsel and director for Sprint Nextel Corporation, where she handled a wide range of privacy, data security, mobile content and e-commerce matters. She represented the corporation before federal and state governmental agencies, including the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) and Federal Trade Commission (FTC), on matters involving privacy, e-commerce and wireless and Internet content. Ms. Salow has testified before state public utilities commissions, worked closely with state Attorneys General, drafted and negotiated state and federal privacy and e-commerce legislation, and participated in numerous FCC and FTC rulemaking proceedings.

An experienced negotiator, Ms. Salow has also handled numerous complex commercial transactions. In addition, Ms. Salow's regulatory compliance experience includes working closely with marketing and sales teams to structure consumer marketing campaigns in a manner that is business-friendly yet compliant with all applicable laws.

In addition to her privacy and e-commerce experience, Ms. Salow has a great deal of experience in trademark law, copyright law and litigation. Earlier in her career, she managed large-scale corporate piracy and anti-cybersquatting programs, litigated domain name disputes under the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (UDRP), prosecuted numerous trademark applications, defended multi-million dollar trademark litigation, and advised many clients on digital copyright issues.

Representative Matters

Ms. Salow has counseled clients on compliance with numerous international and US privacy, data security and e-commerce laws, including:

• EU Data Protection Directive
• EU eCommerce Directive
• EU Privacy and Electronic Communications Directive
• State and federal electronic communications laws, such as the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA) and Wiretap Act
• Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA) and state telemarketing regulations
• Federal data security legislation and state data security laws
• FCC Customer Proprietary Network Information (CPNI) regulations
• Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and associated FTC regulations
• Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and associated FTC regulations
• CAN-SPAM Act and associated regulations
• Communications Decency Act
• Child protection laws and legislation
• FCC broadcast decency regulations
• Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) and associated HHS regulations
• Lanham Act
• Anti-Cybersquatting Consumer Protection Act
• Copyright Act
• Digital Millennium Copyright Act

In addition, Ms. Salow regularly:

• Achieves US/EU safe harbor certifications for multinational companies
• Assists multi-national companies in external and internal data protection and compliance audits
• Advises US-based multinational companies with respect to intra-group data protection agreements involving numerous subsidiaries and affiliates
• Counsels clients on achieving compliance with various federal and state telemarketing and direct marketing laws
• Develops identity theft prevention programs for Fortune 100, mid-sized and small companies
• Creates and implements comprehensive data security programs for domestic and multinational companies
• Advises Fortune 100, mid-sized and small companies on legal obligations and best practices in the aftermath of data security breaches involving consumer data, such as payment card data and health care data
• Drafts and negotiates various types of software agreements, including software as a service (SaaS) agreements and end-user license agreements
• Represents a Coalition of Internet Service Providers, telecommunications companies and cable communications providers on a host of legislative and policy matters involving privacy, intellectual property and e-commerce, including federal legislation, US treaty negotiations and US federal agency initiatives
• Drafts and negotiates HIPAA-compliant business associate agreements
• Advises clients on compliance with HITECH Act changes to HIPAA regulations