PRACTICE AREA

Data Privacy & Cyber Security

Overview

Our specialist IT lawyers are on hand to support your business in keeping your personal data collection, storage and electronic marketing processes compliant with data protection and privacy regulations. Our experienced team is primed to guide organisations through complex data protection and privacy challenges, drafting privacy, data protection, retention and data breach policies, as well as advising on personal data sharing and processing arrangements, international data transfers, and assisting with subject access requests and personal data breaches.  

We are also on hand to safeguard the data processing, digital transactions, cloud storage and other online activities on which your businesses depends. We can assist you in developing processes to manage legal and business continuity risks and vulnerabilities, minimising the chances of a cyber-attack and maximising recovery if one occurs. We work with businesses to implement appropriate governance and compliance structures to mitigate the impact of a cyber incident. 

We have developed Data Assist, a tool to detect and address weaknesses in security architecture, keeping valuable business data safe. We can audit all personal data collection and processing activities and develop a bespoke GDPR compliance solution for each unique business. 

Plus, our Acuity Reputation Management Service, a bespoke crisis and corporate reputation management tool, provides an outsourced data protection officer (Acuity DPO) service. 

Key Contact

Rachelle Sellek, Senior Partner, smiling for a formal headshot.
Senior Partner

Work highlights

  • Advising a leading US tech company in complying with the GDPR, PECR and a major data breach
  • Advising an IT company with data protection compliance in the context of software reseller arrangements and IT support 
  • Advising an IT provider on its post-GDPR data privacy strategy, carrying out an Acuity DataGuard audit and compliance programme, drafting privacy policies and privacy notices, and working with them to design its future data operating model 
  • Advising an employer in connection with evaluating biometric employee systems
  • Advising a national healthcare provider with implementing artificial intelligence software including compliance with data protection law, carrying out data protection impact assessments and putting appropriate data processing and international data transfer agreements in place
  • Advising building operators with CCTV subject access requests

What our clients say

Engagement with Acuity was a pleasure. The whole team was on the ball, attentive, explained everything in layman’s terms throughout the whole process.

Awards

The Data Privacy & Cyber Security Team is ranked Tier 1 in the Legal 500

The Data Privacy & Cyber Security Team is ranked Band 1 by Chambers and Partners

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