Esther Franks is a counsel in the Singapore office of Latham & Watkins and leads the firm’s Privacy & Cyber and Data & Technology Transactions Practices in Asia. She advises tech clients on complex multi-jurisdictional data privacy, regulatory, and IP issues with an Asia nexus. Esther has particularly deep expertise in social media, gaming, AdTech, artificial intelligence, and electric & autonomous vehicles. She regularly writes articles and speaks on data and tech matters, including recently contributing to the Global Privacy Law Review with an article on China’s new AI regulations, as well as speaking on privacy enforcement trends, children’s privacy, AdTech regulations, and AI issues at the Tokyo Video Game Law Conference 2023, and on data breach issues at the Global Legal ConfEx Singapore 2024.