Today we talk with Michael Rhodes, the Global Chair of Cooley’s internet and data privacy practice group. At Cooley, he has famously represented companies from Google, Facebook, and Zoom recently to mp3.com and eBay decades ago. In those suits, he grapples with some of the most cutting edge data privacy issues, from biometrics, to automated email scanning, to privacy in augmented reality. As an early startup attorney representing Silicon Valley’s most recognizable companies in their most high profile litigation, he has seen internet-based businesses develop from a niche group of startups, to a powerhouse global industry.