AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny
08-10-2026 14:35 via theregister.com

AI giants promise to play nice with personal data after UK watchdog scrutiny

Ten of the world's biggest AI developers have agreed to tighten their handling of personal data following scrutiny by Britain's privacy watchdog, which is now turning its attention to autonomous AI agents that don't always play by the rules. The recently rebranded Information Commission's Office (ICO) said Thursday that Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI, and Stability AI have either made changes or committed to doing so after the regulator examined their
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