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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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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.
- National Security and Human Rights
  Navigating the complex balance between security measures and the protection of fundamental civil liberties and personal data.
- Biometrics
  Examining how facial recognition and other biometric systems affect privacy, consent, and identity in digital environments.
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Specialists in technology, data, governance and risk

We help public sector entities fulfil their statutory duties in a way that makes the most of data and innovation, while complying with laws and building trust with the communities they serve. Responsibility in the use of technology is of paramount importance in the public sector, where unaccountable uses can lead to widespread unfairness and erosion of rule of law principles. We therefore advise authorities and regulators to lead by example and empower them to properly govern tech and data uses.

Advising the ICO on discharging its regulatory duties in relation to enforcement of the Online Safety Act
Advising public policy clients and parliamentarians on the Data Use and Access Act, Online Safety Act, Border Security, Asylum and Immigration Act, Crime and Policing Bill, and reforms to the Investigatory Powers Act
Acting for third party interveners in judicial reviews in UK courts or at the European Court of Human Rights
Produced a practice note for Thomson Reuters Practical Law Company (PLC) on Transparent AI use in the public sector

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