IAPP – The Battle Over Your Chatbot Logs: Government Access, Discovery, Solutions (Brussels, BE)

The Chair will host a panel entitled “The Battle Over Your Chatbot Logs: Government Access, Discovery, Solutions” which will take place during the IAPP Europe Congress 2026 on the 18^th of November.  

This session will present the findings of the first comparative study of third-party access to consumer chatbot logs across five major providers. It also provides concrete architectural and regulatory proposals aimed at sustaining chat logs privacy.

The following questions will be discussed:

• Whether your chatbot use for legal, business, health, or strategic purposes exposes confidential information to government requests, discovery, or breach. 
• Why conversations your people have on consumer chatbots could surface in litigation, government investigations, or cross-border police referrals to which your company or institution is not a party. 
• What privacy teams should be advising now, from acceptable-use policies to demanding Sealed Mode and zero-retention options from providers.

The panel will bring together four experts: 

• Prof. Theodore Christakis, Professor of International and European Law at University Grenoble Alpes;
• William Malcom, Executive Director of Regulatory Risk and Innovation at U.K. Information Commissioner’s Office; 
• Lanah Donnelly, Global Privacy Policy Lead at Anthropic;
• Prof. Peter Swire, Georgia Tech and Senior Counsel at Alston & Bird.

Link to register for the event: here.

Link to the event program: here.