Legitimate Interest Versus Employee Rights: Navigating DSRs in HR Data Lakes

Claude-Etienne Armingaud, CIPP/E, Partner, Data Protection Privacy and Security Practice Group Coordinator, Latournerie Wolfrom Avocats
Helen Dixon, Former Commissioner, Commission for Communications Regulation and previously Data Protection Commissioner (Ireland)
Roy Kamp, AIGP, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, FIP, Legal Director, UKG
Noémie Weinbaum, AIGP, CIPP/C, CIPP/E, CIPP/US, CIPM, CDPO/FR, FIP, Senior Managing Counsel, Privacy and Compliance, UKG

With the rapid rise of artificial intelligence in HR — from skills analytics to workforce planning — companies and institutions are aggregating vast internal datasets. But when employees submit DSRs, how can employers balance individuals’ rights to access or erasure with their own legitimate interest in building and maintaining these datasets?

What you will learn:

• The tensions between GDPR Art. 6(1)(f) and DSR obligations.
• Purpose limitation and secondary use challenges in workforce analytics.
• Practical anonymization hurdles in employment contexts.
• What to do when deletion rights collapse, particularly under the new EU Data Act.

Sponsored by: UKG