Meet the Freevacy Team

Joyce believes in providing the skills, knowledge and tools that people need to discharge their duties or responsibilities at the highest level. In this regard, the attainment of a BCS or IAPP professional certification is recognition of an individual's newly acquired abilities, not the objective. And while understanding the law is a fundamental aspect of being an effective practitioner, Joyce focuses on the importance of data rights, ethics and the principles of fairness.

Having been a BCS trainer and course director since 2003 and, more recently, the IAPP, over 2000 students have entrusted Joyce with their professional development. Her training helps people working for multinational corporations and public sector clients achieve their career goals. Over the years, her insight, advice and opinions have been sought by supervisory authorities and government agencies involved in setting the agenda for advancing information rights.

Qualifications

• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Freedom of Information
• BCS Certificate in Information Security Management Principles (CiSMP)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Practitioner Europe (CIPP/E)

Prior to moving into full-time education, Julie enjoyed a 15-year career in various data protection roles, including 7 years as the data protection officer for a law enforcement agency. The position involved implementing and overseeing the data protection strategy to ensure compliance with GDPR requirements. As a DPO, Julie was responsible for developing policies and procedures, maintaining records of processing operations, conducting audits, and providing advice on DPIAs. The role also included training multiple departments throughout the country, along with acting as the point of contact for data subjects and the Information Commissioner's Office.

This experience helps Julie understand the demands and issues delegates face when managing their privacy operations and means that she can offer genuine insight when dealing with challenges.

Qualifications

• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Freedom of Information
• BCS Certificate in Information Security Management Principles (CiSMP)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Practitioner Europe (CIPP/E)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT)
• Target training qualification

Training and motivating people is Anthony's passion. He has sought opportunities throughout his career to help others learn by designing and delivering training programmes in risk management, security analysis, incident response, information security awareness, and data privacy. His deep and extensive operational experience makes him highly-sought-after by clients who require practical training on current techniques within security analysis, cyber and communications data fields.

Experience highlights

• Anthony has provided consultancy on National Cyber Risk Assessments for sectors including Telecommunications to the African Commonwealth on behalf of the UK Home Office and UK FCDO in 2020 & 2021.
• The UK Government features Anthony's Telecommunications Critical National Infrastructure course in an international marketing campaign as a flagship example of UK international capacity building.
• Anthony is responsible for developing a Security Analyst course certified by UK NCSC and is also certified to deliver NCSC Certified Training for OSINT.

Qualifications

• BSc (Hons) Intelligence & Security, Ethical Hacking, Network Security, Digital Forensics, Malware, Cyber Warfare, Staffordshire University
• BSc in Social Sciences with Geography & Politics, The Open University
• ISC(2) Certified Information Systems Security Professional
• ISACA Certified Information Security Manager
• ISACA Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
• ISACA Certified Information Systems Auditor
• ISACA Certified Data Privacy Solutions Engineer
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
• BCS Certificate in Information Security Management Principles (CiSMP)

Technical skills

• Privacy and Data Protection practitioner (legal, compliance, technical)
• Data Protection Officer (DPO)
• Business Analyst (capture business requirements and manage service delivery)
• Enterprise Architecture (analyse, improve, define, design)
• Project Quality Assurance
• IT data center and networking design and implementation
• Application design, quality Assurance and implementation

Qualifications

• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Practitioner Europe (CIPP/E)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
• IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT)
• IAPP Fellow of Information Privacy (FIP)
• itSMF ITIL V3 foundation certificate

As a practising data protection officer for over 95 UK organisations, Amber has extensive experience managing data protection security breaches or dealing with complaints following Subject Access Requests and Freedom of Information Act Requests. This includes supporting organisations through complex cases escalated to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) and attending Information Tribunal court hearings.

During her time as an FOI Officer for Devon County Council (DCC), Amber was the decision maker in the successful High Court FOI Act case (Dransfield v ICO & DCC [2015] EWCA Civ 454) which resulted in the first ever UK case law and guidance on managing 'vexatious requests'.

Amber has also been invited by the Department for Education (DfE), to join their panel of data protection experts to create a series of resources, guides and templates, to support schools in their journey towards compliance with the data protection legislation.

Qualifications

• Masters Degree - Information Rights Law and Practice (LLM)
• BCS Practitioner Certificate in Data Protection
• ILM level 5 award in leadership and management