Welcome and Introduction

Laura Linkomies, Editor, Privacy Laws & Business

Age assurance from a privacy and a wider OSA/DSA perspective

Rebecca Cousin, Partner and Head of Privacy, Slaughter and May
Will Manley, Head of Digital Regulation, Slaughter and May

• EU Digital Services Act (DSA) and
• The UK Online Safety Act (OSA)

Automated decision-making

Annabel Gillham, Partner, Morrison & Foerster
Mercedes Samavi, Of Counsel, Morrison & Foerster

Recent changes to the law and best practice in common use-cases

• Recruitment
• Workforce management
• Age verification
• AML checks

Tea Break

Making effective use of AI Tools to support privacy compliance programmes

Alison Deighton, Director, HelloDPO

Overview of trends we are seeing in relation to use of AI to support privacy compliance activities - including use of LLMs to answer privacy related queries, using Copilot and similar tools to respond to internal compliance questions, use of AI in managing DSARs and carrying out data mapping.

• What works well?
• What are the shortcomings?
• Will / should AI replace the privacy team / DPO?
• What are the opportunities for privacy professionals?

What drives the DP profession? Perverse incentives and their effect on individual rights and freedoms

Ralph O'Brien, Principal and Founder, Serious Privacy & Data Protection Ltd

• Data protection documentation and where it fails
• Tools become targets
• Data Protection Impact Assessments
• The UK’s Data Use and Access Act 2025
• Cultural problem