Decades of experience handling complex legal and technological challenges, providing expert advice and litigation around privacy, cybersecurity and AI.

Root Legal is founded by me, Ot van Daalen.

I represented clients in the high-tech- and telecommunications sectors at top-tier law firm De Brauw Blackstone Westbroek, developed policies for our digital future as the director of digital rights movement Bits of Freedom, and investigated internet-related cases at the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens (the Dutch DPA).

Next to my work as an attorney, I’m an assistant professor at the Institute for Information Law of the University of Amsterdam, a substitute judge at the District Court of The Hague and a member of the supervisory council of the Stichting Democratie en Media. I wrote a PhD on quantum computing, encryption and human rights.

See my personal website for more information on my publications and media appearances.

Root Legal supports open source grant making foundation NLNet pro bono, and is a financial supporter of Bits of Freedom.

Ot van Daalen is registered with the legal practice area Privacy law in the Netherlands Bar’s register of legal practice areas (rechtsgebiedenregister), as a result of which he is required to obtain ten training credits per calendar year in this legal practice area in accordance with the standards set by the Netherlands Bar.

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