Sophie Barnett is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s Privacy + Data Security Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.
Sophie focuses her practice on privacy and related commercial litigation. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and defends clients in class actions, regulatory inquiries, and government-facing investigations regarding data security practices as well as general commercial and white-collar and anti-corruption matters. Sophie also assists clients in complying with U.S. and international data protection laws, including the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) and other comprehensive state privacy laws, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), state wiretap laws, and the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In addition, Sophie recently completed a secondment with a major financial institution, where she advised on privacy compliance, artificial intelligence (AI), and federal class actions.