Amanda Witt

Practice Areas

Amanda Witt co-leads both the Cybersecurity, Privacy and Data Governance Practice and the Technology, Privacy & Cybersecurity Team at Kilpatrick Townsend. She focuses her practice in the areas of information technology, U.S. and global privacy, IoT, information security, e-commerce, cross-border transactions, outsourcing, licensing and procurement, intellectual property protection and transactions, strategic alliances, commercial transactions, software development and licensing, SaaS services, and electronic signatures.

Career

Partner, Kilpatrick, Townsend & Stockton LLP (April 2013 – present)

Adjunct Professor, Georgia State University College of Law (January 2014 – January 2019)

Nelson Mullins Riley & Scarborough (March 2008 – April 2013)

Locke Lord (November 2004 – March 2008)

Hirsch & Luten, LLP (October 2002 – November 2004)

Hunton & Williams (2000 – 2002).

Publications

Co-Author, IAPP Privacy Program Management (textbook)

"Burned in the USA: Should the Music Industry Utilize its American Strategy of Suing Users to Combat Online Piracy in Europe?" (published in Spring 2005 issue of Columbia Journal of European Law).

“Utah becomes the Fourth Comprehensive State Privacy Law and a National Pattern Emerges,” March 28, 2022

“Building a Strategic Privacy Program,” October 6, 2021

“Privacy and Franchising: Are You Keeping Up To Protect Your Consumers and Your Franchise?,” New York Law Journal, September 29, 2021

“What To Do When Your Contractual Counterparty Gets Mired in a Public Scandal,” Association of Corporate Counsel (ACC) Georgia, Fall 2021 Newsletter, September 15, 2021

“Video | Colorado's New Comprehensive Privacy Law,” July 21, 2021

“Colorado’s New Comprehensive Privacy Law: a Downhill Effort for the For-Profit Sector. But, Non-Profits, Welcome to the Slopes!,” July 9, 2021

“Better Than Santa Clauses? New and Improved Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)! And a form DPA!,” June 9, 2021

“(In)consistent Consent: Managing Multi-Jurisdictional Consent,” Privacy+Security Forum Spring Academy, May 26, 2021

“Privacy: States Overview of Privacy Legislation CLE,” State Bar of Georgia Privacy and Technology Law Section, April 21, 2021

“New Class Action Trend: Website Session Replay Tools Alleged to Violate All-Party Consent Recording Requirements,” April 2, 2021

“Cross-Border Data Transfers: Spain's Data Protection Authority Imposes Its Largest Fine,” March 23, 2021

“Virginia Can No Longer Say Whom It's For Without Consent, Thanks to Its New Comprehensive Consumer Privacy Law,” March 4, 2021

“Doing Business in the European Union: Exploring Cross-Border Legal Issues,” Presented with the Georgia Chapter of the Association of Corporate Counsel, December 7, 2020

“IAPP Volunteer Spotlight: A Conversation with Amanda Witt,” IAPP, December 3, 2020

“CCPA 2.0: California Privacy Laws Continue to Take Center Stage,” November 17, 2020

“Privacy and Transparency as a Brand Differentiator,” Privacy + Security Forum, October 22, 2020

“The Privacy Shield Sunk, but Is There a Life Raft for the Standard Contractual Clauses? Strategies for Transferring Personal Data Across the Atlantic from a Post-Schrems II Europe,” October 7, 2020

“Delay Denied: Brazil Senate Sets Immediate Effective Date for the LGPD,” August 28, 2020

“The New Swiss Data Protection Act,” Privacy Talks, August 27, 2020

“What's Next after the Schrems II Decision of ECJ,” Webinar, July 27, 2020

“Lower Your Privacy Shield, But Max Out Your Opinions for Maintaining Transatlantic Data Flow,” July 21, 2020

“California Attorney General Finalizes CCPA Regulations as the Law's Enforcement Date Nears,” June 5, 2020

“COVID-19 Potentially Postpones the LGPD in Brazil,” April 20, 2020

“Electronic Signatures and Electronic Delivery of Documents as a Social Distancing Business Continuity Strategy,” March 23, 2020