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Neil Andrew Brown
Managing Director of decoded.legal
Personal details
EducationUniversity of Southampton
ProfessionSolicitor

Neil Andrew Brown is an English solicitor who practices Internet, technology, and telecommunications law. He is currently the managing director of the English law firm decoded.legal.

Career

Brown graduated from the University of Southampton with a Bachelor of Laws in 2004. He was admitted as a solicitor in 2007.

Brown was employed by the Vodafone Group as an in-house lawyer for about 10 years before he founded decoded.legal. decoded.legal exclusively uses free and open source software to communicate with its clients, such as by encrypting files with Cryptomator before storing them on Nextcloud.

In 2017, Brown was appointed as a trustee of the Society for Computers and Law.

Brown is regularly quoted by leading media outlets on technology law and regulation issues, such as in relation to port scans of users computers by banks, Section 127 of the Communications Act, disclosure notices under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act, and the introduction of the Online Safety Act in the United Kingdom (UK).

He is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Home Office, maintained under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.

As of 2024, Brown was ranked in Band 2 for Information Technology in the UK by Chambers and Partners.

Notes

  1. Chambers ranks firms on a scale of band 1 (highest) to band 6 (lowest).

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