Alina Wattenberg is an associate in the New York office of Gibson Dunn, where she is a member of the firm’s Privacy, Cybersecurity & Data Innovation and Artificial Intelligence practice groups. Alina’s practice focuses on advising companies on product and compliance strategies and on regulatory risk management, particularly with respect to global privacy and data protection laws, consumer protection frameworks, and emerging youth safety and social media laws. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US).
Alina has extensive experience advising on product launches – particularly those involving disruptive or cutting-edge technologies – and on the development and implementation of compliance programs. She also assists clients with drafting internal and public-facing terms, policies, and notices and with assessing data-related risk in complex transactional matters. She frequently counsels on internal investigations and on matters before the Federal Trade Commission, Department of Justice, multiple state Attorneys General, and global data protection authorities.
Previously, Alina worked for two years as product counsel at Meta Platforms, Inc. (on secondment).
Alina has served on the firm’s Associates Committee and maintains an active pro bono practice, having helped lead two Gibson Dunn teams that were awarded the Pro Bono Leadership Award by the National Center of Law and Economic Justice and the Pro Bono Team of the Year by Kids in Need of Defense. She has successfully obtained asylum for two clients and advises non-profit organizations and small businesses on privacy programs and policies.
Alina graduated from Harvard Law School in 2017, where she served as an Executive Article Editor for the Harvard Human Rights Journal. She earned her Bachelor of Arts degree, magna cum laude, in 2014 from Duke University, where she was an Angier B. Duke Scholar.
She is admitted to practice in the State of New York.
Capabilities
- Privacy, Cybersecurity, and Data Innovation
- Administrative Law and Regulatory Practice
- Artificial Intelligence
- Consumer Protection
- Tech and Innovation
Credentials
Education:
- Harvard University - 2017 Juris Doctor
- Duke University - 2014 Bachelor of Arts
Admissions:
- New York Bar