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Pinsent Masons LLP‘s defendant-focused data privacy and media disputes team offers representation to a wide range of clients - most notably traditional media organisations, technology companies, and media liability insurers - in sensitive reputation management matters. The team is led by David Barker, a leader in the field of data privacy litigation who has been increasingly focusing on regulatory investigations in the data space, particularly those with an international element. Emily Cox specialises in data privacy and media disputes and has extensive group action experience.

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Key clients

  • Google
  • DeepMind Technologies Limited
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Work highlights

  • Advising DeepMind Technologies Limited and Google UK Limited on a representative action brought by Andrew Prismall on behalf of a purported class of around 1.6 million individuals whose medical records were sent by the Royal Free London NHS Foundation Trust (RFL) to DeepMind in connection with DeepMind’s provision of a service called Streams.
  • Advising Currys in relation to a group action brought on behalf of 711 individuals seeking to recover damages for distress they claim to have suffered after their personal data was allegedly compromised during a cyberattack suffered by Currys in 2018.
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