Veronica Scott
Partner
Veronica is a dual qualified privacy, cyber, data and media law practitioner. She helps organisations protect and use their data and digital content responsibly and innovatively, manage risk, and respond to emerging regulation. She advises on consumer data rights, direct marketing, digital transformation, cyber liability, cross border arrangements, cloud and supply chain risks, governance, and ethics.
Veronica's experience
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Advised a global energy technology company on compliance with Australia’s Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018, including responding to regulatory correspondence on data storage and processing for a critical infrastructure asset and preparing supporting materials such as response letters, a white paper and a compliance guide.
- Australia and United States
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising APAC cyber insurance clients on legal and regulatory strategies for ransomware, data breaches, and financial fraud. Coordinating legal input, data risk reviews, stakeholder engagement, and crisis communications to ensure compliance and swift recovery during complex, high-impact cyber incidents involving sensitive data and financial loss under panel arrangements.
- Australia
- Financial Services
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Advised a marketing automation provider on its local and global data breach obligations including a multi-jurisdictional regulatory scan and contractual compliance strategy to support international expansion, review and uplift of its data breach response plan and data processing addendum and delivering training.
- Cross-Borders
- Professional & Public Services
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Trusted long term advisor to a leading ASX-listed private health insurer and health solutions provider providing privacy, data security and data governance advice and managing strategic projects involving the use of data, AI and SaaS vendors.
- Australia
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised a leading ASX-listed FMCG company on enterprise cyber and privacy risk management, including board-level obligations, data governance, and regulatory compliance and advising on its long-term privacy, data and cyber roadmap
- Australia
- Technology, Science & Industry
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Advised a global ASX-listed mining and infrastructure services company, on workforce data governance and cross-border privacy compliance, including updates to its data transfer framework and privacy management function and development of its global data retention policy and procedure.
- Cross-Border
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advising an integrated energy generator and one of Australia's "big three" retailers in the National Electricity Market on proposed amendments to the Security of Critical Infrastructure Act 2018 (Cth) (SOCI), focusing on ‘data storage or processing’ assets and ‘protected information’ provisions in Part 4.
- Australia
- Energy & Natural Resources
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Advised the Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) on the development of a model for collection and reporting on scam data by regulated telco providers to meet regulatory and Scam Code obligations.
- Australia
- Government and public sector
Credentials
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2024Joined Pinsent Masons
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2001Admission to practice - Victorian Supreme Court and High Court
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2001Melbourne University - Law (Postgraduate)
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1997Admission to practice - England & Wales
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1992Social Sciences (Bachelors (Hons)) - University of Birmingham
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