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AWO is a new data rights agency
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Across our Legal, Compliance and Consulting teams we offer intersecting services to support you.

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- Legal
  AWO is a law firm authorised in England & Wales providing a full range of advice on technology law and data rights.
- Compliance
  Navigate complex legal, technical and organisational frameworks, making data protection meaningful to the organisations.
- AI Governance and Risk
  Helping organisations get ready for AI by supporting their AI governance and risk framework, across a business, legal and ethical perspective.
- Strategic Advice
  Concise, high-impact strategies to respond to complex and fast-changing technology issues
- Data Protection and Privacy Audit
  Identifying your potential data protection or privacy gaps, based on the GDPR, the UK Data Protection Act, Australian Privacy Act among other jurisdictions.
- Investment Due Diligence
  Supporting investors review portfolios across a range of factors to ensure due diligence.
- Human Rights Impact Assessments
  Assessing and determining how an organisation’s projects, policies or decisions can impact individuals’ fundamental rights and freedoms
- Consulting
  Delivering specialist public policy advisory and strategic research on emerging technology issues, including AI and open-source technologies.
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Expertise

Our team works across the world to advise a broad range of clients on what to do with data: from policy design to regulatory compliance, data management to private litigation and enforcement.
- Artificial Intelligence
  Ensuring AI systems respect human rights and operate with fairness, transparency and accountability.
- Online Safety and Platform Regulation
  Building safer digital spaces while preserving essential freedoms and individual autonomy.
- Workers and Technology
  Protecting workforce rights and dignity in an era of increasing technological integration.
- Online Advertising
  Understanding the impact of digital advertising on privacy and consumer rights.
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Specialists in technology, data, governance and risk

We advise innovative businesses who wish to develop and use data and technology in a beneficial, compliant and rights-respecting way. We help businesses and technology developers to navigate complex and high-stakes regulatory environments, while contributing to society and respecting the rights of those around them. We are experts in particularly innovative and complex technologies, such as advanced data analytics, new algorithmic tools, decentralized technologies (e.g. blockchain), smart cities and the internet of things, facial recognition, advertising technology (AdTech), AI, LLMs and more.

Advising a blockchain startup (now successfully exited) on the legal implications of sensitive information transfers through decentralised networks
Advising a major web browser provider on approaches to more privacy-preserving advertising distribution and their response to regulatory complaints under the GDPR and ePrivacy Directive

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