Emma Bate

U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office

Director of Legal Services

Emma is a Legal Director at the Information Commissioner’s Office, overseeing the Data Privacy Advice and Contracts and Compliance legal teams.

She joined the ICO in 2017 from private practice where she had practiced as a data protection lawyer for 20 years. Emma often complains that her work is always interesting, important, and urgent! She supported the development of the ICO Sandbox, leads the ICO’s legal work on international transfers, and advised on ICO’s approach to controllers, processors and joint controllers for AI, cloud and other complex technology solutions..

 

Contributions by Emma Bate

  • Avoid Chaos and Prepare Your Workplace for the Use of Generative AI
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • BCR: Achieving Privacy’s Holy Grail
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2024
  • International Data Transfers: Building Trust, Delivering Growth and Innovation
    Speaker at IAPP Data Protection Intensive: UK 2022