Major AI Firms Pledge Data Protection Changes Following UK Privacy Watchdog Push
Ten major AI firms pledged UK data-protection changes after the ICO pushed transparency and opened a Grok probe.
The UK Information Commissioner's Office said ten AI companies — Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stability AI — have made or committed to UK data-protection changes covering transparency, individual rights, and safeguards. An October 8 report asks foundation-model developers to identify a lawful basis, explain processing, enable data-subject rights, and show that safeguards materially reduce risk. The ICO opened a six-week call for evidence closing November 20 and has already contacted OpenAI, Anthropic, Meta, and the UK AI Security Institute. It also confirmed formal investigations into X Internet Unlimited Company and X.AI over personal-data processing for Grok, including its potential to generate harmful sexualized images and video.