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It’s becoming common to see employees using their own AI tools at work; like a comms officer who drafts with ChatGPT, a finance manager who automates reconciliation through a plug-in, a policy lead who runs data through an “AI summariser” to save time. Small, pragmatic innovations emerge as people find ways to work within systems that often struggle to keep pace with real-world demands. For Data Protection Officers, this “Bring Your Own AI” trend is both inevitable and risky.

Across the NHS and wider health sector, locums and temporary clinicians are often essential to keeping services running. They move between organisations, adapt quickly, and bring a wealth of experience. But increasingly, my customers tell me, they’re also bringing their own technology. That might mean the familiar dictation software they use in their main practice, a personal transcription app, or even an AI-powered scribe that listens, writes, and structures their notes. Whi

When building AI systems, missing data is unavoidable. Maybe patients didn’t report their income, maybe students skipped a survey, maybe a sensor failed. To keep things moving, developers often use quick fixes like mean imputation , replacing missing values with the average of what’s there. It sounds harmless. But in practice, it can quietly introduce bias, reduce accuracy, and create unfair outcomes. What is imputation? Imputation is the process of filling in missing values

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