Rebecca is a data protection specialist, with over 10 years' experience, both advising clients and working in-house. She advises clients across the full range of data protection issues, and has recently undertaken data protection secondments with clients in the insurance and health sectors.

Relevant experience includes:

Rebecca's recent experience includes:

• Providing strategic advice to a large insurer client on a significant international data transfers project. As part of this project, she provided strategic legal advice, as well as being an integral member of the client’s project team tasked with developing bespoke software to handle the client’s approach to international data transfers;
• Undertaking fully outsourced data protection compliance reviews, often with an international angle;
• Advising on complex DPIAs for high-risk processing activities, and working with clients to review or draft workable Data Protection Impact Assessment (DPIAs) policies;
• Drafting long and short-form privacy notices for a range of products and services in various sectors;
• Advising on complex Data Subject Access Requests and ICO complaints; and
• Drafting and negotiating UK GDPR-compliant contract terms, and managing data protection contract overflow services for clients.

Rebecca started her data protection career prior to qualification in Regulatory Action at the ICO, where she worked closely with the investigation and enforcement teams.

Rebecca previously worked in-house where her experience includes remediation work following an ICO audit, DPIAs, GDPR compliance programmes, and data subject requests.

She has provided data protection training to clients in various sectors, including a non-ministerial department and various insurers.

Rebecca also has previous in-house experience advising on the Freedom of Information Act.

Rebeca joined DAC Beachcroft in September 2019.