Biography
Michele Lucan is a Deputy Associate Attorney General at the Connecticut Attorney General's Office and Chief of its Privacy Section. In this role, Michele oversees all matters involving consumer privacy and information security. Most notably, the Section is currently leading and/or co-leading multistate investigations of several massive data breaches involving sensitive personal information.
Michele joined the Attorney General's Office in 2008 and first served in its Consumer Protection Division, where she investigated and pursued enforcement actions against a variety of unfair and deceptive business practices under the Connecticut Unfair Trade Practices Act. In 2013, Michele was appointed to a multidisciplinary Privacy Task Force that was created to focus the Office's response to privacy concerns and data breaches, and educate the public and Connecticut businesses about data protection responsibilities under state and federal law. In early 2015, a dedicated Privacy Section was formed and Michele was assigned full-time to the Section from its inception. Michele has spent the past several years working exclusively on privacy-related matters.
Michele is a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP)/ U.S. She received her B.A. from Loyola University in Maryland and her J.D. from the Quinnipiac University School of Law. Michele speaks regularly on privacy-related topics to government, bar and industry groups.