Get to Know Amber
Amber Sivill is a Junior Data Protection Consultant at Data Protection People with a background in law and a strong start in data protection consultancy. Before joining Data Protection People, she spent a year and a half at an outsourced data protection consultancy, progressing from Trainee Data Protection Officer to Data Protection Manager. Her interest in data protection began while studying law, when reading The People vs Tech: How the Internet is Killing Democracy led her to explore how personal data, democracy and technology intersect.
That interest shaped her undergraduate dissertation on the processing of special category data in democratic processes and how effectively UK GDPR is enforced, one of her highest marks and a key part of her First Class Law degree. Amber also holds both the CIPP/E and CIPM qualifications, and has experience across UK, EU and international privacy work, including AI, PECR, security, cookies, international transfers, and frameworks such as HIPAA and the CCPA/CPRA.
Experience
Amber is currently a Junior Data Protection Consultant at Data Protection People, where she supports clients across a wide range of privacy and information governance matters. Before joining Data Protection People, she spent a year and a half at The DPO Centre, where she progressed from Trainee Data Protection Officer to Data Protection Manager. That progression reflects both the quality of her work and the trust she built early in her career.
Her experience covers much of what clients would expect from DPO support in practice, including compliance audits, DPIAs, DSARs, policy and privacy notice drafting, training, advice line support and wider privacy governance work. She also has experience with cookie compliance, international transfers and cross-border privacy issues, alongside knowledge of frameworks such as HIPAA and the CCPA/CPRA.
Amber’s legal background still shapes the way she works. She graduated from the University of Cumbria with First Class Honours in Law, and her dissertation on special category data in democratic processes remains one of the strongest examples of the curiosity and critical thinking she brings to privacy work. Clients value her for being thoughtful, approachable and able to turn complex issues into clear, practical advice.
“I enjoy the side of data protection that helps clients make sense of difficult issues and turn them into something clear, practical and workable.”