Esther Birlin-Spake
Senior Counsel, Data Privacy

Bio
Esther focuses her practice on data privacy and AI governance, with extensive experience building privacy programs across U.S. and European jurisdictions. She studied at Freie Universität Berlin and King's College London, holds an LLM from American University, is admitted in New York, and holds the CIPP/US, CIPP/E, and AIGP credentials.
Education
- Freie Universität Berlin, JD and Dipl.-Jur.
Admitted in
- New York
Practice areas
Writing
- ‘Anonymous’ Is a Test, Not a Checklist: Italy Fines IQVIA 7 Million Euros
- SB 690 Takes Website and App Pen Register Claims Away From Private CIPA Plaintiffs
- Global DPA vs. US DPA vs. EU DPA: What Changes When Your Vendor Is International?
- The Real DSAR Problem: Finding Where Personal Data Lives
- Your Sub-Processor List Is Probably Wrong: What a Privacy Attorney Checks First
- A GDPR-Compliant Vendor Doesn't Automatically Mean Your Data Transfer Is Legal
- The Frontier: Computing on Data Without Ever Seeing It
- So Which Privacy-Enhancing Technology Should You Use?
- Federated Learning: Great Idea and Expensive Reality
- The One Anonymization Method With Actual Math Behind It: Differential Privacy Explained
- Synthetic Data: The Most Exciting Privacy-Enhancing Technology, and the Most Oversold
- “Anonymized” Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: A Guide to Data Privacy Compliance
- Geneva AI Dialogue: Compliance Roadmap for AI Companies
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