Indy Talken is an associate in the firm’s Intellectual Property and Technology Transactions practice, with a focus on data privacy and cybersecurity. She counsels clients on U.S. and international privacy law issues, privacy program governance, vendor and commercial contracting, and product counseling matters involving online tracking, advertising technologies, and emerging data uses. Indy’s practice centers on the intersection of high technology with applicable regulatory, intellectual property, data privacy and security, and business transactions law.

Indy works with clients across the healthcare, fintech, adtech, SaaS, AI, and retail sectors. She regularly drafts and negotiates complex technology and commercial agreements, including data processing addenda and related privacy and security provisions addressing data use restrictions, confidentiality, security measures, audit and assurance rights, subcontracting and subprocessors, cross-border transfers, and incident notification and cooperation requirements. She also supports privacy due diligence in strategic transactions and helps clients operationalize compliance through scalable documentation and processes.

Indy has advised on privacy considerations involving AI and automated decision-making, biometrics and facial recognition, international data transfers, and children’s/minors’ privacy and online safety requirements.

Indy is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US), credentialed by the International Association of Privacy Professionals. She received her J.D. from the University of Nebraska, College of Law, with distinction, where she was Editor-in-Chief of the Nebraska Law Review and a Student Fellow in the Nebraska Governance and Technology Center. Before law school, she earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering from the University of Notre Dame and was a member of the Irish Guard and marching band and published research in robotic design.