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Anna W. Chan

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Anna W. Chan is an associate in the Privacy & Cybersecurity Group and member of the Technology Media & Telecommunications group.

Anna’s practice focuses on privacy and data security. She regularly works with clients in the development and/or enhancement of privacy compliance programs, including drafting online and offline privacy policies, procedures, and related notices. Anna often assists clients with the drafting, review, and negotiation of data processing agreements. She also has experience counseling clients on privacy-related issues in marketing, such as email and telemarketing, as well as privacy-related issues in the ad tech space, including the use of cross-device tracking technologies.

Anna also regularly assists clients with identifying, evaluating, and addressing cybersecurity risks, including advising on proactive cyber incident readiness activities, such as tabletop exercises and incident response plans. She also assists clients with data breach and cybersecurity incident response, including analyzing breach notification laws and preparation of notices to impacted individuals and regulators. Anna also frequently assists clients in conducting diligence and negotiating privacy and data security aspects of corporate transactions

Prior to joining Proskauer, Anna was a privacy counsel at a Fortune 500 pharmaceutical company, where she advised the company on data privacy compliance for the company’s U.S. operations.

Anna is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US).

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On August 29, 2024, the Office for Civil Rights of the United States Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS-OCR”) withdrew its appeal of an order by the United States District Court for the Northern District of Texas’ (“District Court”) declaring unlawful and vacating a portion of an HHS-OCR Bulletin…

  • There has been a recent surge of privacy class action lawsuits under the Arizona Telephone, Utility, and Communication Service Records Act targeting the use of common email marketing analytics technologies.
  • Defendants are asserting standard defenses including lack of Article III standing as well as challenging the 2007 Arizona law’s applicability to email tracking pixels.