NGOs and Advocacy Organisations

We help campaigners, advocates and human rights defenders use the law to achieve their goals and defend those they represent. We have years of experience working with the non-profit and advocacy sectors, helping them use data protection, human rights, investigatory powers law, digital regulation, freedom of information and public law, all the way from investigations to strategic litigation. We also help them shape and make new laws that will make technology better for people and society.

Experience

  • Advising advocacy organisations and parliamentarians on the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill, Online Safety Act, and reforms to the Investigatory Powers Act
  • Representing Privacy International in its successful intervention in the landmark case of The Information Commissioner v Clearview AI
  • Representing Just Treatment in a judicial review of the National Data Opt-Out, successful at pre-action stage in enforcing patients' "right to object"
  • Advising the Ada Lovelace Institute with an opinion on the state of legal protection against the harms of Advanced AI Assistants (AAAs)
  • Advising the Mozilla Foundation on terms imposed by "very large online platforms" for researcher access to data under Article 40 of the Digital Services Act
  • Drafting a model complaint on Meta’s “pay or okay” model filed with data protection authorities by BEUC’s member organisations in 8 different EU jurisdictions
  • Representing Big Brother Watch in a complaint to the ICO against facial recognition search engine PimEyes and a complaint to the ICO against a UK supermarket’s use of live facial recognition cameras
  • Representing The Good Law Project in a successful ICO challenge to personal data processing by the British Conservative Party
  • Producing a report for the Open Rights Group on the ICO’s regulatory oversight of health surveillance measures during the Covid-19 pandemic and the potential impact of the Data Protection and Digital Information Bill on health surveillance
  • Advising Clean Up Gambling on policy and litigation matters in relation to the use of data by the gambling sector
  • Acting for third party interveners in judicial reviews in the UK High Court or at the European Court of Human Rights
  • Pursuing freedom of information requests in the UK and EU and challenging refusals with the ICO, courts and EU Ombudsman

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