John Falzone is a Vice President of the Entertainment Software Rating Board, where he manages the Privacy Certified program—a leading online privacy compliance and certification program, and FTC-approved COPPA Safe Harbor. Prior to joining the ESRB, John was an Assistant Attorney General in the New Jersey Attorney General’s Office, where, among other things, he managed the enforcement of state and federal consumer-protection and privacy laws, including COPPA, HIPPA/HITECH, and the New Jersey Consumer Fraud Act. Before entering public service, John spent more than twelve years as a litigation and regulatory attorney at Latham & Watkins LLP and then Parker Ibrahim & Berg LLC.

John is a Certified Information Privacy Professional/United States by the IAPP and a member of the IAPP’s Privacy Bar Section Advisory Board. He received his law degree from Seton Hall University School of Law, where he graduated with honors and served as the Editor-in-Chief of the Seton Hall Law Review. He received his undergraduate degree from Villanova University.