| In October 2008 Stewart was named as the winner of the
Financial Times Legal Innovator of the Year Award 2008,
for his work with IT companies. |
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Stewart Room is a partner in the Privacy
and Information Law Group. He is dual qualified as a barrister
and a solicitor holding full Higher Court Rights of Audience, with
over 18 years’ experience as a litigator and advocate. Stewart has
considerable expertise and reputation in data protection and data
security matters, He is ranked as a Leading Individual for data
protection by Chambers UK. Legal 500 says that Stewart’s
“data protection and privacy prowess is recognised as being at
the forefront of the field”.
Stewart specialises in the financial
institutions, technology &
communications, healthcare, media &
entertainment, not-for-profit, public
sector, retail and transport sectors.
In 2008 Stewart was named as the Financial Times Legal Innovator
of the Year, for his work with IT companies on Privacy Enhancing
Technologies. He is also the Chairman of the National Association
of Data Protection Officers and the founder of DPA Law, a leading
free online resource on data protection. Stewart is the firm’s Data
Protection Officer, his role entails ensuring that our data
processing operations are conducted in accordance with the law.
Stewart has contributed to various publications and has written
three books on information law, namely Data Protection and
Compliance in Context (2006), Email: Law, Practice and
Compliance (2008) and Butterworths Data Security Law &
Practice (2009). He was also the legal expert on the Channel 4
Dispatches document ‘The Data Theft Scandal’,
which exposed security failings in the Indian call centre
industry. He is a regular speaker at industry conferences on
data protection and data security, including the British Bankers
Association annual data protection conference, InfoSec and RSA
Conference.