Covington & Burling (Brussels)

Daniel P. Cooper

Covington & Burling (Brussels)
Partner

Daniel Cooper joined Covington & Burling in 1996. He is co-chair of Covington’s data privacy and cyber security practice, and advises clients on information technology regulatory and policy issues, particularly data protection, consumer protection, AI, and data security matters. He has over 20 years of experience in the field, representing clients in regulatory proceedings before privacy authorities in Europe and counseling them on their global compliance and government affairs strategies. Dan regularly lectures on the topic, and was instrumental in drafting the privacy standards applied in professional sport. According to Chambers UK, his "level of expertise is second to none, but it’s also equally paired with a keen understanding of our business and direction." It was noted that "he is very good at calibrating and helping to gauge risk." Daniel Cooper is qualified to practice law in the United States, the United Kingdom, Ireland and Belgium. He has also been appointed to the advisory and expert boards of privacy NGOs and agencies, such as Privacy International and the European security agency, ENISA.

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Articles

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Greg Lascelles, Daniel P. Cooper, Louise Freeman, Sinead McLaughlin, Lisa Peets, Mark Young, Fredericka Argent, Rosie Klement The UK Supreme Court dismisses a single claimant’s landmark class action attempt against a Big Tech company for alleged contraventions of data protection law, but lowers the bar for future representative actions (Google / Lloyd)

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On 10 November 2021, the UK Supreme Court ruled in favour of Google in a landmark judgment against an attempt by a single claimant, Mr Richard Lloyd, to bring a representative action on behalf of a class of 4 million iPhone users relating to Google’s alleged contraventions of data protection (...)

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