Robin Hopkins

Specialist in data protection, privacy, FOI and environmental information. Huge experience, often for major global companies, in data breaches, compensation actions, ICO penalties and enforcement, subject access, GDPR-compliant business models, etc. Has appeared in leading data protection and privacy cases, eg Facebook v ICO (monetary penalty); DB v GMC (mixed personal data); Ittihadieh (subject access); Edem (definition of personal data). Has also appeared in hundreds of FOI and EIR appeals, eg IPSA (MPs’ expenses); APPGER (security services, international relations) and Henney (definition of environmental information). Edits the Panopticon blog.

South African College School; University of Cape Town (2000 BA Business Science); Rhodes Scholar; Oxford University (2003 BA in PPE; 2004 MA philosophical theology); City University (2007 GDL), Inns of Court School of Law (2008 BVC).