Agenda:
1. The new frontiers of workplace data disputes: AI-powered DSARs & complaints and weaponised wearables
This session examines two emerging challenges reshaping how employers handle workplace data. First, we'll explore the rise of AI-generated subject access requests and complaints - how LLMs are enabling employees (and their advisers) to craft highly targeted, voluminous and strategically timed DSARs at scale, and the subsequent complaints, and what this means for response workflows, cost and compliance risk. Second, we'll consider how biometric and stress data collected through workplace wearables or employees’ own wearables might be turned against employers in litigation, grievances and regulatory complaints - from constructive dismissal claims backed by cortisol trends to allegations of unsafe working environments supported by heart-rate variability logs.
2. What can (and can't) you monitor in 2026?
From AI-powered productivity tracking to location monitoring of remote workers, the tools available to employers have expanded dramatically in recent times – but so have the legal risks. Join us to unpack the evolving landscape of workplace monitoring, including new EU requirements affecting AI-based surveillance, what changes might emerge from the current UK consultation on workplace monitoring, recent enforcement trends, and the practical steps you need to take to ensure your monitoring practices remain compliant. Whether you're reviewing existing policies or implementing new technologies, this session will give you the clarity you need.
3. Your questions answered: Workplace privacy dilemmas solved
What's keeping you up at night? In this interactive closing session, our panel will tackle the real-world workplace data and AI questions that matter most to you. Our experts will work through the most common practical scenarios they have been asked about over the last 12 months and give you answers you can take back to the office.
