Data protection and cyber security

Our specialist data protection and cyber security team provides clear and tailored guidance to ensure your business stays compliant and prepared

Our experience includes:

• Advising Aspects Beauty, a distribution and brand management company based in the UK and Ireland, on its privacy notice, its data protection policies and procedures, and on data protection marketing rules.
• Acting as leading car manufacturer's external legal counsel for all data protection matters, taking into account complicated flows of data and interrelation between different entities and data protection regimes internationally. Advice on third-party personal data processing arrangements has involved smart TVs, Alexa, Facebook and Google.
• Advising Oncoheroes Biosciences Inc., which develops and licences drugs specific to treating childhood cancers, to ensure data transfers from the EU and UK to the United States related to adverse events were compliant under data protection laws.
• Acting for the owner of a large number of luxury fashion and beauty brands on data protection matters including an intragroup data processing agreement, in particular covering UK GDPR rules on international transfers; the use of online facial scanning technology; responding to data subject access requests (DSARs); and updating records of processing.
• Advising a business intelligence organisation on a complex project to update various policies and procedures in light of the intelligence services it provides to clients, including updates to standard client terms; updates to standard contractor terms, including allowing for international data transfers; updates to its privacy notice; and a data subject access request (DSAR) compliance flow chart.