Manager's HR Navigator · Ireland

Is your hiring AI already banned?

Emotion-recognition at work has been prohibited under the EU AI Act since February 2025. Three questions tell you if you have a problem today. Free — no account needed.

Question 1 of 3

Do any tools analyse candidates' or employees' facial expressions, tone of voice or physiological signals to infer emotions or states of mind (e.g. engagement, honesty, stress)?

Common in video-interview scoring and some monitoring software.

Question 2 of 3

Do any tools categorise people using biometric data to infer characteristics such as race, political opinions, trade union membership, religious beliefs, sex life or sexual orientation?

Question 3 of 3

Do any tools score employees' trustworthiness based on social behaviour or personal characteristics unrelated to the context the data came from?

“Social scoring” across unrelated contexts.