Kevin Moriarty

Kevin Moriarty (LinkedIn) is a privacy and data security attorney.  He is currently a Distinguished Fellow at the NYU Center for Cybersecurity and a Senior Fellow at the Tech, Law, and Security Program of the American University Washington College of Law.  He served as an advisor to Chair Lina Khan of the Federal Trade Commission from 2022 to 2024, where he advised on privacy and data security matters, including groundbreaking health and location privacy matters and critical rulemakings on children, health, and financial privacy.

From 2011 to 2022, Moriarty served as a staff attorney in the Division of Privacy and Identity Protection of the Federal Trade Commission.  In this role, he led the division’s first litigated data security case in federal court, which established the Commission’s authority to enforce the FTC Act to prohibit unfair data security practices.  He also brought innovative privacy actions involving health, browsing, and television viewing information.  Moriarty worked on the Commission’s first-ever action under the Red Flags Rule of the Fair Credit Reporting Act and first action against an advertising exchange.  Prior to the FTC, Kevin was an attorney in the intellectual property and appellate practice groups of Wilmer Cutler Pickering Hale and Dorr LLP.

Moriarty received his AB from Princeton University and his JD from the New York University School of Law.  Following law school, he served as a law clerk for Judge Robert S. Lasnik of the United States District Court for the Western District of Washington and Judge Edith Brown Clement of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit.