AI, Privacy & Data Protection: Threats, Legal Liability & Regulatory Outlook in the UK & EU

Introduction

Artificial Intelligence (AI) raises an array of privacy and data protection issues throughout its lifecycle. From data collection to model training and output generation, individuals’ personal data is both central and at significant risk. Some recent examples include Clearview AI’s scraping of billions of photos from the entire Internet for its facial recognition database, LinkedIn’s feeding of its users’ data to train its AI models, or X’s Grok chatbot creating non-consensual intimate images of women.

The threats to privacy and personal data that have emerged from Large Language Models (LLMs) are being replicated and compounded in new developments and applications of AI, such as in Vision-Language Models (VLMs). While these promise useful capabilities in visual recognition for a range of sectors such as medicine, robotics or journalism, they raise new forms and levels of risks and harm to individuals.

Organisations developing and using AI tools may be exposed to significant liability when these risks materialise. This webinar will consider how the law approaches data privacy issues as applied to AI, reviewing recent technological and legislative developments, as well as regulatory and court activity in the UK and EU.

What You Will Learn

This webinar will cover the following:

• Privacy and data protection issues raised by AI - analysis of recent headlines:
• Mass data collection for AI training - security and consent issues
• Surveillance
• Gendered threats to human rights
• Data exfiltration
• Harmful outputs
• Cybersecurity
• Relevant laws to consider in compliance and litigation efforts - data protection, online safety laws, product liability, tort law, human rights law
• Regulatory outlook - how regulators have approached the issue or are likely to approach it
• Litigation outlook - how courts have approached the issue or are likely to approach it

This pre-recorded webinar will be available to view from Wednesday 3rd June 2026

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