Data Protection: Experience

• Breach notifications: Acting for a global social media company in making breach notifications to the ICO and assisting with the subsequent investigations.
• External Data Protection Officer services: Providing external DPO services to a utility company in Northern Ireland.
• IT contracting: Advising a building society on the data protection provisions within its IT agreements and negotiating contracts for the migration of data to a new service provider.
• UK GDPR compliance review: Undertaking a UK GDPR compliance review for a leading conference and entertainment centre and updating its internal and external-facing UK GDPR documents.
• Defending a data breach class action: Acting for a plc in the defence of a class action involving hundreds of alleged claims data protection law breaches following a cyber-attack.
• Defending a data protection injunction: Acting for an international news organisation in the defence of a data protection-based injunction before the High Court and Court of Appeal.
• Takedown requests: Acting for a multinational technology company in relation to takedown requests and in relation to privacy, data protection and defamation allegations.