Kelsey A. Fayer

Kelsey Fayer is an associate in the Privacy and Data Security Group at Ballard Spahr. She provides strategic counsel, ensuring compliance and mitigating risks associated with data processing and protection in a variety of sectors and transaction types. Kelsey advises clients on matters including advertising technology, strategic partnerships, incident response, and navigating risks associated with data. Continuously monitoring swiftly evolving privacy regulations, she recognizes that business achievement hinges on crafting a thorough privacy program that aligns with the intricate network of state, federal, and global privacy statutes. Additionally, Kelsey leverages her experience with privacy compliance to help companies navigate state sweepstakes, contest, giveaway, and lottery laws. While in law school, she focused on children’s education technology, due process challenges to automated decision making, deepfake legislation, and First Amendment challenges to privacy laws.

Kelsey served as a student attorney at the Samuelson-Glushko Technology Law and Policy Clinic in Boulder from August 2019 through January 2021, where she drafted and handled comments and ex partes in the FCC docket. As a legal intern at the FCC in Washington D.C., she conducted legal research on broadband wiring, numbering, and forbearance.