Sophie Barnett is an associate in Morrison Foerster’s Privacy + Data Security Group and is based in the firm’s Washington, D.C. office.

Sophie focuses her practice on privacy and related commercial litigation. She is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US) and defends clients in class actions, regulatory inquiries, and government-facing investigations regarding data security practices as well as general commercial and white-collar and anti-corruption matters. Sophie also assists clients in complying with U.S. and international data protection laws, including the California Consumer Protection Act (CCPA) and other comprehensive state privacy laws, the Telephone Consumer Protection Act (TCPA), Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act (CAN-SPAM), Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act (GLBA), Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA), state wiretap laws, and the Global Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In addition, Sophie recently completed a secondment with a major financial institution, where she advised on privacy compliance, artificial intelligence (AI), and federal class actions.

Sophie has an active commitment to pro bono work. Notably, she is assisting in the representation of a parent against their child’s school district with claims of discriminatory, dehumanizing, and unlawful strip searches and other unreasonable searches of students in violation of their federal statutory and constitutional rights under the Fourth and Fourteenth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, Title VI of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act, and all relevant implementing regulations. She is also providing legal assistance to individuals participating in a court-supervised reentry program in the Eastern District of New York and with a habeas petition in the Southern District of New York.

Sophie received her J.D. and B.A., with honors in international relations, from the University of Toronto. During law school, she was an associate editor of the University of Toronto Faculty of Law Review and a panel member on the trial division of the University’s academic discipline tribunal. She also completed an internship with the Office of the Prosecutor at the United Nations International Residual Mechanism for Criminal Tribunals in The Hague (the successor tribunal to the International Criminal Tribunals for the Former Yugoslavia and Rwanda), and worked at the Citizen Lab, an interdisciplinary research center that focuses on the intersection between cyber and human rights.