<p data-pm-slice="0 0 []">The Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) has launched an AI and Biometrics Strategy to help ensure that organisations have sufficient safeguards and standards when developing and implementing AI technologies. Key priorities will include the introduction of a statutory code of practice on AI and automated decision-making; working with developers to ensure personal data is used responsibly and lawfully when training generative AI models; and ensuring proper governance of automated decision-making systems, focusing particularly on recruitment and public services. The ICO plans to scrutinise how major employers and recruitment platforms use automated decision-making and their transparency, discrimination and redress procedures. Any organisations supplying or deploying facial recognition technology are likely to be subject to even more detailed scrutiny, although the ICO has indicated that its main focus will be the policing sector. Further consultations on updates to the ICO’s automated decision-making and profiling guidance, and the proposed statutory code, are expected to be published over the next year.</p>