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11:00am - 12:15am, 7 May 2026
(Europe/London)
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Event Details
Public Policy
Thursday 7th May
11:00am-12:15pm
Online Meeting
Meeting Agenda
The ICO have recently published a paper on Automated Decision Making (ADM) in Recruitment alongside draft guidance and a consultation document.
ICO consultation on the draft guidance about automated decision-making, including profiling | ICO
This follows APSCo’s member webinar with the ICO last year which fed into their paper.
The Data (Use and Access) Act 2025 has expanded the use of ADM, by allowing legitimate interests as a lawful basis for using ADM in data processing. However, our recent Recruitment Transformation reports on AI highlighted member preference for some level of meaningful human oversight of ADM. This sits alongside job seeker concerns of being interviewed by “AI robots” as picked up in the press following CV Library’s recent report.
This is critical to the sector’s future as identified in our Business Transformation Zone so members need to be heard by the ICO and wider government.
Speakers
Tania Bowers
APSCo, Global Public Policy Director
Tania is the Global Public Policy Director. She is a solicitor who has worked exclusively in the professional staffing sector since 1999, joining APSCo in 2016.
As Head of Global Public Policy Tania represents our members’ interests in meetings and communications with Government departments, ministers, MPs and other interested stakeholders. She is responsible for APSCo’s public affairs activity on a global basis representing APSCo members’ views to governments and contributing to the debate on the future of the global professional labour market.