David M. Didion is a special counsel in Jenner & Block's Communications, Internet, and Technology and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practices. He advises clients on telecommunications regulatory requirements, ongoing rulemakings, and communications transactions. David also provides counseling on mobile and online privacy compliance, policy, and strategy.
David has facilitated over $20 billion in telecommunications transactions and has been involved in several prominent Federal Communications Commission proceedings. Over his career, he has provided guidance on both the strategic and procedural elements of several multi-billion dollar wireless and cable transactions, advising clients on transaction structure, FCC strategy, and licensing matters involving wireless spectrum and other authorizations. David offers a wide range of compliance and policy advice for clients in the wireless, satellite, radio, media, and wireline services.
David provides strategy and compliance advice on mobile and online privacy. He has experience counseling clients in the entertainment, media, and advertising technology industries on mobile privacy strategies, including matters relating to FTC, FCC, COPPA, CalOPPA, US-EU Safe Harbor, “Do Not Track,” VPPA, and international privacy requirements. David has published and contributed to privacy articles in the Communications Lawyer, the Daily Journal, Law360, and Lexology, and has delivered ABA and CLE presentations on the evolution of online and mobile privacy rules.
David graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School as a Kirkland and Ellis Scholar - awarded to the top 5% - and member of the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. David earned his BA with departmental and University honors from the University of Maryland and his MA from the University of Texas at Austin, both in analytic philosophy.
Representative Matters
Telecommunications:
- Representing several major wireless and cable providers in communications-related aspects of mergers and other transactions.
- Providing advice for FCC license applications, transfers, leases and extensions in wireless, satellite, radio and wireline services.
- Participating in FCC proceedings on the TDM-to-IP transition, program access reform, and universal service and intercarrier compensation reform.
Online and Mobile Privacy:
- Advising a major entertainment industry association on mobile privacy strategies.
- Counseling a large online ad technology company on compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act regulations.
- Conducting privacy policy reviews and audits, primarily for media companies.
- Counseling on Video Privacy Protection Act compliance.
- Participating in multistakeholder proceedings, including on transparency in mobile apps at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Credentials
Service / Recognition
Overview
David M. Didion is a special counsel in Jenner & Block's Communications, Internet, and Technology and Data Privacy and Cybersecurity Practices. He advises clients on telecommunications regulatory requirements, ongoing rulemakings, and communications transactions. David also provides counseling on mobile and online privacy compliance, policy, and strategy.
David has facilitated over $20 billion in telecommunications transactions and has been involved in several prominent Federal Communications Commission proceedings. Over his career, he has provided guidance on both the strategic and procedural elements of several multi-billion dollar wireless and cable transactions, advising clients on transaction structure, FCC strategy, and licensing matters involving wireless spectrum and other authorizations. David offers a wide range of compliance and policy advice for clients in the wireless, satellite, radio, media, and wireline services.
David provides strategy and compliance advice on mobile and online privacy. He has experience counseling clients in the entertainment, media, and advertising technology industries on mobile privacy strategies, including matters relating to FTC, FCC, COPPA, CalOPPA, US-EU Safe Harbor, “Do Not Track,” VPPA, and international privacy requirements. David has published and contributed to privacy articles in the Communications Lawyer, the Daily Journal, Law360, and Lexology, and has delivered ABA and CLE presentations on the evolution of online and mobile privacy rules.
David graduated with high honors from the University of Chicago Law School as a Kirkland and Ellis Scholar - awarded to the top 5% - and member of the Order of the Coif. During law school, he served as an editor of the University of Chicago Law Review. David earned his BA with departmental and University honors from the University of Maryland and his MA from the University of Texas at Austin, both in analytic philosophy.
Representative Matters
Telecommunications:
- Representing several major wireless and cable providers in communications-related aspects of mergers and other transactions.
- Providing advice for FCC license applications, transfers, leases and extensions in wireless, satellite, radio and wireline services.
- Participating in FCC proceedings on the TDM-to-IP transition, program access reform, and universal service and intercarrier compensation reform.
Online and Mobile Privacy:
- Advising a major entertainment industry association on mobile privacy strategies.
- Counseling a large online ad technology company on compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act regulations.
- Conducting privacy policy reviews and audits, primarily for media companies.
- Counseling on Video Privacy Protection Act compliance.
- Participating in multistakeholder proceedings, including on transparency in mobile apps at the National Telecommunications and Information Administration.
Credentials
Admissions
- District of Columbia, 2012
- Maryland, 2011
Education
- University of Chicago Law School, JD, with high honors, Order of the Coif, Kirkland and Ellis Scholar, 2011
- University of Texas at Austin, MA, 2005
- University of Maryland, College Park, BA, with honors, undergraduate thesis received University Honors Award for Best Scholarly Paper, 2003
Service / Recognition
Awards
- Capital Pro Bono Honor Roll, 2022, 2024-2025
- Legal 500, Regulatory, Telecoms and Broadcast, 2020