Andrew Ready Tate, founder of Privacy Rights Law LLC

Andrew Ready Tate · Founder

Your data is their business. Holding them accountable is mine.

I founded Privacy Rights Law to represent people whose personal information has been collected, tracked, shared, or used without their consent. The work requires equal fluency in the technology and the law. Understanding what a system actually does is where every case begins, and it is the part most companies are counting on no one to do.

$50M+in class settlements negotiated in under three years of class-action practice
Class Counsel2026 settlements over tracking on hospital websites and patient portals
6 millionpeople in the data-breach class whose claims were reinstated on appeal
Trial & Appellate100+ depositions; first-chair trial and appellate victories

Practice

I represent individuals in class actions and other litigation over the technologies that quietly observe everyday life. These include tracking code on websites and in apps, software development kits (SDKs) inside mobile software, connected devices in the home, and the data-broker networks behind them. Much of my recent work has involved tools such as the Meta Pixel and Google Analytics deployed on healthcare, education, and consumer platforms, and the privacy of children online.

These cases turn on what companies know and their users never see: what a piece of code actually collects, where the information goes, who profits from it—and how any of that compares with what people were told. The level of invasiveness and consumer manipulation I have observed goes beyond what most people realize is happening. Nobody agreed to be watched this closely. I am dedicated to finding out exactly who is doing it, and to holding them accountable in court.

Privacy and class-action experience

Before founding Privacy Rights Law, I practiced at Peiffer Wolf Carr Kane Conway & Wise, where I originated and led numerous data privacy and data breach matters and worked alongside the firm’s senior partners on others. Beginning in 2023, my practice focused primarily on data security and privacy litigation, including complex class actions and mass arbitrations. In less than three years of class-action practice, I negotiated class settlements valued at more than $50 million.

That work has helped shape emerging case law on how state and federal wiretapping statutes, including the California Invasion of Privacy Act, apply to modern technologies, and how traditional tort and contract principles apply to contemporary data-security disputes. Companies often try to escape class accountability by pointing to arbitration clauses buried in their terms of service. I have defeated numerous motions to compel arbitration, keeping those cases in court where they belong.

Representative experience

2026

Class Counsel in two hospital-tracking settlements

I served as Class Counsel in two settlements involving allegations that hospital systems deployed tracking technologies on hospital websites and patient portals that communicated sensitive health information. The settlements totaled approximately $17 million.

2025

Doga v. State of Louisiana, Office of Motor Vehicles

I helped obtain a complete reversal of a trial-court decision dismissing a proposed data-breach class action arising from a breach affecting approximately six million individuals. The Louisiana First Circuit Court of Appeal reinstated the plaintiffs' claims.

Doga, No. 2024-1116, 2025 WL 1912320 (La. App. 1 Cir. July 11, 2025)

Trial

Kinlaw v. Nwaokocha

In my first jury trial, I served as first-chair trial counsel in a medical-malpractice action in the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia and obtained a $1.3 million jury verdict for a client who suffered a fractured hand while incarcerated. TopVerdict recognized the verdict among the Top 100 medical-malpractice verdicts in the United States for 2019.

No. 3:17-cv-00772 (E.D. Va.)

These matters are representative of my experience before founding Privacy Rights Law and should not be understood as results obtained by Privacy Rights Law unless otherwise indicated. Prior results depend on the facts of each matter and do not guarantee a similar outcome.

Earlier practice

Across that work I have taken more than 100 depositions, drafted more than 500 complaints, briefs, and motions, and carried cases from filing through trial and appeal as the attorney responsible for them, not as a second chair.

Before concentrating on privacy and data-security litigation, I litigated matters involving medical malpractice, excessive force, cruel and unusual punishment, coerced sterilization, due-process violations, institutional neglect at nursing homes and fertility clinics, the unlawful denial of retirement benefits to police officers and firefighters, workplace torts, and whistleblower retaliation.

In 2018, I litigated cases challenging the U.S. Government's separation of families at the U.S.–Mexico border, work that reunited numerous parents with their children.

Admissions & co-counsel

Bar admissionGeorgia
Court admissionsSupreme Court of Georgia · Georgia Court of Appeals · Georgia Superior Courts · U.S. District Courts for the Northern, Middle, and Southern Districts of Georgia, the District of Colorado, and the Southern District of Texas · U.S. Courts of Appeals for the Fourth, Ninth, and Eleventh Circuits
Co-counsel networkWorking relationships with plaintiffs’ firms in every state. Matters outside Georgia are handled with locally admitted co-counsel.

Education

Emory University School of LawJuris Doctor · Intern to the late Chief Justice P. Harris Hines, Supreme Court of Georgia
Emory UniversityBachelor of Arts
New York University, Tisch School of the ArtsConcentration in Theater

Outside the office

I grew up in Atlanta’s northern suburbs and spent much of my youth on stage, most happily as Bottom in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and as Hamlet. Very little of that training has gone to waste in a courtroom.

I am Catholic and an active member of the St. Thomas More Society of Atlanta, a fellowship of Catholic attorneys. My wife and I live with our three children in one of Atlanta’s oldest suburbs, where I cook with my culinarily gifted wife, coach our children’s many sports teams, and do my best to make everyone laugh.

Mine was the last generation whose childhood was not recorded, measured, and sold. I would like my children, and everyone else’s, to have the benefits of technology without the surveillance. It is much of why I do this work.