Veronica Scott

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Pinsent Masons

Partner, TMT Practice Lead

Veronica is a partner at Pinsent Masons and co-leads its TMT practice in Australia. She is dual qualified and is admitted to practice in England & Wales and Australia with over 20 years as a litigator and regulatory practitioner advising clients on all aspects of digital and data regulation, privacy, media law, cyber security and incident response.

Veronica has worked on many high-profile media and reputationally sensitive disputes, appearing in courts at all levels. She leads a team that helps organisations protect and use their data and digital content responsibly and innovatively across the data lifecycle, to manage their legal and reputational risks and respond to emerging and converging regulation and risks. She advises on consumer data rights and direct marketing, privacy impact assessments, cross border data arrangements, cloud and supply chain risks, as well as data and AI governance and ethics. From her experience advising clients across a range of industry sectors and government, including education, health and life sciences, digital media, energy and retail, Veronica brings commercial and pragmatic cross sector best practice, risk based and industry specific regulatory insights.

Veronica has also lead the response to multiple cyber incidents and data breaches and helps clients proactively prepare for cyber incidents, identify and manage their cyber risks, meet their critical infrastructure security obligations and understand their cyber liability and insurance cover.

 

Contributions by Veronica Scott

  • Rethinking Privacy as a Human Right in the age of AI and new technologies
    Moderator at IAPP ANZ Summit 2024
  • Modernizing the Future of Privacy Compliance
    Speaker at In-Person Melbourne KnowledgeNet: 12 Sept. 2024
  • ANZ Delegate Tour: Privacy developments in Australia and global trends for 2023
    Speaker at In-Person Melbourne KnowledgeNet: 3 May 2023
  • ANZ Delegate Tour: Privacy developments in Australia and global trends for 2023
    Speaker at In-Person Melbourne KnowledgeNet: 3 May 2023
  • AI and Robotics: How new tech will revolutionize your approach to privacy
    Speaker at Melbourne KnowledgeNet: 11 March 2020