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Mickai Ebook · 20 pages · 14 May 2026

AI in the Workplace: From Opaque Surveillance to Cryptographic Accountability

A response to Professor Nazrul Islam's Guardian column on 11 May 2026, and an engineering playbook for the worker, the union, the employer, and the regulator at the same chain.

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Inside this ebook

The workplace AI ebook. Cryptographic accountability for the AI that surveils the worker, with the worker as a first-class party in the trust domain.

Part I: The Guardian Framing
1. What Nazrul Islam actually argued
2. The two-tier workforce divide
3. The wider 2026 record (CNBC, Register, The Week)
Part II: The Engineering Question Underneath
4. Vendor-key, vendor-format, vendor-cloud
5. The cryptographic position the worker should hold
6. The cryptographic position the union should hold
Part III: The Substrate Answer
7. Trust-domain externalisation in plain terms
8. The same chain for the worker, the union, the employer, the regulator
9. The browser-resident verifier in the worker's hand
Part IV: Policy Fit
10. UK GDPR Article 22 in practice
11. ICO workplace monitoring guidance
12. Engagement path with the TUC and the academy
About the author

Micky Irons

Founder of Mickai LTD (Companies House 17166618, England and Wales). Named inventor on the Mickai SIOS patent corpus, recorded on the UK Intellectual Property Office public register at numbers GB2607309.8 to GB2610422.4. Trade mark Mickai registered at UK00004373277 (classes 9 and 42, filed 15 April 2026). Before founding Mickai, Micky was a Sellafield site worker, and the egress constraint observed from inside the regulated workstation is the engineering origin of the substrate.