This course is for professionals in business, technical, risk, and compliance roles who work with lawyers and need a working understanding of data privacy law; it is not designed for JD students. You will begin with what privacy means legally, including privacy practices, autonomy, and zones of privacy, and see how the law balances privacy against competing rights through name and likeness and the right of publicity. You will then learn how data privacy is defined and regulated in the United States, including personal data, personally identifiable information, the sources of privacy law, and how the federal and state patchwork compares with the GDPR. Next you will study federal laws that cover specific sectors, including the Video Privacy Protection Act, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act, and the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act, and how courts apply them to cookies and online tracking. You will finish with the California Consumer Privacy Act as a model for reading a regulation, covering who it applies to, its key definitions, and consumer rights, and how that analysis leads to a privacy policy.