Tamara Mackay-Temesy

Tamara provides strategic, pragmatic advice on all aspects of data protection, privacy, and direct marketing.

Tamara regularly advises businesses on data protection compliance in complex, cutting-edge projects. She also advises on cross-border data transfers, data protection risk assessments, data protection in contracting, accessible privacy policies and other transparency information, and day-to-day compliance. She has led a number of data protection compliance remediation projects, including working closely with legal and business teams through audit, gap analysis, remediation and implementation stages.

Tamara has advised on several regulatory data protection investigations. She can guide you through collaborating with regulators proactively or in support of investigations into third parties, and on engaging with data protection regulators in the context of an investigation or threatened enforcement action.

She has experience advising multinational clients across online platforms, online media, music, e-commerce, financial services, technology, education and other sectors.

• Advising on an ICO investigation into a platform company's implementation of a generative AI-based chatbot, accessible to children.


• Advising an online music streaming platform on complying with transparency requirements and cookie compliance.


• Advising a consumer-facing company on an investigation into unlawful employee data access and sharing, including working with the ICO.


• Advising on an ICO investigation into the use of facial recognition technology in large public-private spaces.


• Advising a multinational bank on its global GDPR compliance project, including auditing, reporting, remediation and implementation.

• World Commerce & Contracting, Innovation & Excellence Awards 2021, Award for Personal Initiative (EMEA) 

• International Association of Privacy Professionals (Certified Information Privacy Professional/Europe (CIPP/E) certification)