Neil Andrew Brown is an English solicitor who practices Internet, technology, and telecommunications law.
[2] Brown was employed by the Vodafone Group as an in-house lawyer for about 10 years before he founded decoded.legal.
[4][5] 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.
[7] Brown is regularly quoted by leading media outlets on technology law and regulation issues,[8][9][10] such as in relation to port scans of users computers by banks,[11] Section 127 of the Communications Act,[12] disclosure notices under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act,[13] and the introduction of the Online Safety Act in the United Kingdom (UK).
[14][15] He is currently a member of the Technical Advisory Board of the Home Office, maintained under the Investigatory Powers Act 2016.