Peter Church

Solicitor, Linklaters

Peter is an experienced technology lawyer. He originally studied Computer Science at Cambridge and has nearly 25 years’ experience advising clients on the challenges raised by new technology. He is recognised as an expert in technology regulation in Chambers & Partners, and in the data section of Who’s Who Legal. Clients say “he is very good” (Chambers 2026).

Work highlights including advising on the interaction between AI and the GDPR for a variety of large technology companies, including responding to regulatory investigations and enforcement by regulators from across the EU and UK.

He has also worked for a number of large tech companies on a variety of significant UK and Irish regulatory investigations into issues such as ad personalisation, international transfers and subject access rights.

He was seconded to the Information Commissioner’s Office to work in the Technology Policy team on Adtech and AI, and as part of the response to the COVID-19 pandemic.

He led the high-profile audit into the Royal Free’s use of an App developed by DeepMind, part of the Google group of companies and advising on the related representative class action (Prismall v Google).

Contributed to

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Letter notifying data subject of data breach under PECR 2003

Precedents

This precedent letter can be used to notify individuals of a data security breach under the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003, SI 2003/2426 (PECR 2003). It takes into account guidance from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) about when and what you should tell individuals about a breach and also relevant guidelines produced under equivalent regimes from the EEA. This precedent has been drafted with several alternatives to allow the tone of the letter to be adapted to reflect the severity of the breach and the risk posed to the individual.

Information Law