Angad Chopra

Angad Chopra is an attorney in Holland & Knight's Chicago office and a member of the firm's Data Strategy, Security & Privacy Team. Mr. Chopra handles a range of advisory, compliance and transactional matters with a focus on advising clients in regard to domestic and international privacy and cybersecurity laws and regulations.

Mr. Chopra assists clients with respect to comprehensive U.S. state privacy laws, including the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA), California Privacy Rights Act (CPRA), Colorado Privacy Act (CPA), Virginia Consumer Data Protection Act (VCDPA), Connecticut Data Privacy Act (CTDPA) and Utah Consumer Privacy Act (UCPA), Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA) and Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), among others.

In addition, Mr. Chopra advises on foreign privacy laws, including the European Union's (EU) General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the ePrivacy Directive (ePD). Mr. Chopra also assists clients in complying with nuanced rules and regulations specific to emerging technologies, including artificial intelligence (AI) and generative AI. He regularly drafts privacy policies, terms of use, cookie policies and web accessibility policies, as well as internal program policies and procedures. Mr. Chopra has also counseled numerous clients through data breaches, with extensive experience in regulatory and consumer notifications. More proactively, he advises clients on adopting more robust cybersecurity and privacy risk postures through risk assessments using industry standard frameworks and tabletop exercises.

Mr. Chopra has also worked on a variety of corporate transactions and supports deal teams to vet pertinent privacy and cybersecurity considerations in connection with their transactions. In addition, he regularly drafts and assesses software as service (SaaS) agreements, data protection agreements and data use agreements.

While in law school, Mr. Chopra served as the chief articles editor for the Ohio State Law Journal (OSLJ). He also published his law review note in the journal, which discussed insurance disputes and complications arising in the aftermath of cyberattacks. In addition, Mr. Chopra worked as a research assistant for the program on Data and Governance, where he focused his research on advanced automated/algorithmic processing, privacy, civil rights and civil liberties concerns regarding Internet of Things (IoT) technologies, data analytics and the ethical usage of big data. As a part of his work for the program, Mr. Chopra served as a member of the Ohio Attorney General's Facial Recognition Task Force, providing feedback on potential disparate impact, bias and discrimination concerns in the use of facial recognition by law enforcement.

Mr. Chopra is a Certified Information Privacy Professional in the United States (CIPP/US) with the International Association of Privacy Professionals (IAPP).

Prior to joining Holland & Knight, Mr. Chopra was a privacy and cybersecurity attorney at a national law firm in its Chicago office.