Heather Catchpole

I am an Senior Associate in our London Privacy & Data Protection team with strong expertise in online safety.

I help organisations with product counselling and implementation of compliance programmes under the GDPR, ePrivacy legislation, and AI legislation in the EU/UK. I also do extensive work in the online safety space and advise regularly on intermediary liability and compliance with the EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and UK Online Safety Act (OSA). I have a particular focus on the social media, gaming, sports, retail/hospitality, adtech and life sciences sectors. I especially enjoy advising organisations on children's privacy and protecting children from harmful online content.

I'm also a part-time jazz/classical singer (and organise Bird & Bird's office choir!).

Prior to joining Bird & Bird I spent four years in the IP/IT and data privacy team of a Magic Circle law firm.