Stuart Ingis

Stuart Ingis represents clients in federal privacy and Internet-related legislation and rulemaking proceedings of recent years, including the Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (Can-SPAM), the Telemarketing Sales Rule (TSR), proceedings pertaining to the financial privacy provisions of the Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), the Electronic Signatures Act (E-Sign), the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), and the Department of Commerce's Safe Harbor Program for compliance with the European Union's Data Protection Directive (the E.U. Directive). Mr. Ingis has also been significantly involved on behalf of clients in the Federal Communications Commission's implementation of the landmark Telecommunications Act of 1996 as it applies to the Internet. Mr. Ingis also is well-known for representing clients in crisis management situations, in particular with Congressional relations. Mr. Ingis has been involved with Internet law and policy from the inception of the commercial Internet. He has spoken in the United States on privacy, electronic commerce and consumer protection, and related issues. Mr. Ingis was a Fellow at the Villanova Center for Information Law. In that capacity he co-founded Project Bosnia, aimed at deploying the Internet and promoting the rule of law in Bosnia following the signing of the Dayton Accords. Mr. Ingis is the co-author of Privacy Protection in the United States: A Survey. Mr. Ingis was a primary draftsperson of the advertising and consumer protection section of the American Bar Association's millennium plenary paper on Internet jurisdiction. Mr. Ingis also worked with the Electronic Commerce and Consumer Protection Group, composed of many large companies that drafted a code of best consumer protection principles and an approach to jurisdiction online. Mr. Ingis also helped to draft the policies for the BBBOnLine Privacy Seal Program of the Council of Better Business Bureaus. Chambers and Partners recognized Mr. Ingis as one of the nation's elite privacy and data security attorneys in the 2008 edition of Chambers USA.