The UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) says it has secured data-protection changes from 10 major AI developers after a call for evidence. The ICO’s announcement follows around two years of scrutiny and includes firms that have made changes or committed to make them to improve how they handle personal data.
Named by the regulator are Amazon, Anthropic, Apple, Cohere, DeepSeek, Google, Meta, Microsoft, OpenAI and Stability AI. Reported commitments relate to making improvements to data protection practices, following the ICO’s engagement with the sector. Infosecurity Magazine and The Next Web both describe the ICO as using its privacy watchdog process to obtain practical changes, and they frame the development as a regulatory outcome rather than a voluntary, single-vendor action.
While outlets focus on the regulator’s enforcement and the list of companies, the underlying point is consistent: the ICO is moving from scrutiny and evidence collection toward changes intended to strengthen compliance around personal data in AI systems.
