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Yvonne Cunnane

VP, Associate General Counsel and Head of Data Protection | Meta Platforms Ireland

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Yvonne Cunnane

VP, Associate General Counsel and Head of Data Protection | Meta Platforms Ireland

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Yvonne Cunnane is VP & Head of Data Protection for Meta Platforms Ireland, leading a team of international privacy lawyers who work daily in this fast-evolving area of law and practice. She is at the cutting edge of developments in the data protection & privacy space and provides legal advice and regulatory support to teams in Europe and APAC, MENA & LATAM. Prior to her role with Meta, Cunnane spent many years in private practice in Ireland and internationally, advising on technology and telecommunications commercial contracts and data protection related issues. Graduating from University of Limerick with a BA in Law and German, Cunnane completed a Masters in Law and Economics at the University of Hamburg before qualifying as a solicitor with the Incorporated Law Society of Ireland.

Yvonne Cunnane - Ireland 2024

Head of Data Protection and Associate General Counsel | Meta Platforms Ireland

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Yvonne Cunnane - Ireland 2022

Head of data protection and privacy | Meta (Facebook)

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Yvonne Cunnane - Ireland 2019

Head of data protection and associate general counsel | Facebook

Yvonne Cunnane acts as the main privacy advisor to the Facebook business in Europe and leads a growing team of data protection and privacy lawyers. Under her guidance, the data...

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Yvonne Cunnane - Ireland 2015

Head of Data Protection and Privacy | Facebook

Providing all Facebook’s privacy support outside the US, Yvonne Cunnane is at the cutting edge of a niche area in a state of flux. Legal challenge to Facebook’s European privacy...

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