Data and Technology Legal Privacy Intern (Summer 2026)

Available Locations: Washington D.C.

About Cloudflares Legal Team

Ensuring the privacy of personal information is core to Cloudflares mission to help build a better Internet. Our legal team helps the company deal with complex matters by anticipating regulatory changes and guiding the company around the complications and distractions that arise from such obstacles. Our Legal Privacy intern will help foster our unique corporate philosophy and approach in which the security and privacy of our customers data are paramount.

About the internship program

The ideal Legal Privacy intern is passionate about making the Internet a better place. You will work alongside experienced legal team members to partner with them in developing legal resources and supporting legal initiatives that help improve Cloudflares privacy and data compliance posture. We are looking for interns who are curious proactive and interested in devising innovative and elegant solutions to complicated privacy legal challenges.

What youll do

• Research and advise on privacy developments and data protection laws impacting global technology companies and work collaboratively across multiple functions to assess the impact of such laws and developments on Cloudflares business
• Help develop resources such as policies processes and playbooks for global privacy and data protection compliance including the following topic areas:
• Data breach notification requirements
• Critical infrastructure requirements
• Data localization and sovereignty requirements
• Public sector IT service provider certifications
• Privacy biometric compliance
• Marketing privacy requirements
• HR/employment privacy compliance
• Interact with engineers and product subject matter experts on legal privacy and infrastructure topics that impact the development and operation of Cloudflare products
• Contribute to blogs white papers and marketing materials on Cloudflares privacy and data protection posture and key privacy issues and features
• Help advise on the privacy aspects of Cloudflares marketing strategy including analysis under consumer protection laws like the U.S. CAN-SPAM law and the EUs ePrivacy Directive.
• Support legal privacy counsel in coordinating and advising on Cloudflares response to privacy and infrastructure incidents
• Contribute to comments on pending legislation relating to privacy data protection and critical infrastructure in the EU and United States

Examples of desirable skills knowledge and experience

• Basic understanding of major global and regional privacy laws such as the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and U.S. state comprehensive privacy laws such as the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA).
• Familiarity with fundamental concepts like Privacy by Design (PbD) Data Minimization Purpose Limitation and lawful bases for processing personal data
• Ability to efficiently use legal databases and translate them to simple digestible language.
• Experience working in IT environments and applying legal requirements to complicated technical systems and products
• Strong organizational communication skills (written and verbal) problem-solving skills. Attention to detail
• Understanding how to use AI legal research tools effectively and leverage them to perform day-to-day tasks.
• Demonstrate critical thinking skills and drive to learn and adapt new technologies.
• Curiosity empathy and ability to get things done.
• Ability to commit to a minimum 12 week summer internship.
• In the office 3-5 days a week in the Washington D.C. office

Compensation

• Estimated hourly pay of $24/hour.

What Makes Cloudflare Special

Were not just a highly ambitious large-scale technology company. Were a highly ambitious large-scale technology company with a soul. Fundamental to our mission to help build a better Internet is protecting the free and open Internet.

Project Galileo: Since 2014 weve equipped more than 2400 journalism and civil society organizations in 111 countries with powerful tools to defend themselves against attacks that would otherwise censor their work technology already used by Cloudflares enterprise customers--at no cost.

Athenian Project: In 2017 we created the Athenian Project to ensure that state and local governments have the highest level of protection and reliability for free so that their constituents have access to election information and voter registration. Since the project weve provided services to more than 425 local government election websites in 33 states.

1.1.1.1: We released 1.1.1.1 to help fix the foundation of the Internet by building a faster more secure and privacy-centric public DNS resolver. This is available publicly for everyone to use - it is the first consumer-focused service Cloudflare has ever released. Heres the deal - we dont store client IP addresses never ever. We will continue to abide by our privacy commitment and ensure that no user data is sold to advertisers or used to target consumers.

Sound like something youd like to be a part of Wed love to hear from you!

This position may require access to information protected under U.S. export control laws including the U.S. Export Administration Regulations. Please note that any offer of employment may be conditioned on your authorization to receive software or technology controlled under these U.S. export laws without sponsorship for an export license.

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