The Law Society. The Law Society gave evidence to the Joint Committee on Human Rights on AI and human rights, pointing to rule-of-law and accountability issues as policy work on AI continues in the UK.
European Data Protection Supervisor. The EDPS published Newsletter 117, highlighting EU-level work on preparing public administration for AI risk and AI Act implementation, including an inventory-style mapping exercise of AI systems within EU institutions and broader horizon-scanning on AI trends.
Regulation
GOV.UK. A new Algorithmic Transparency Record was published for DWP’s “CMG Return Letters processing”, describing a production-stage computer vision and OCR tool used to extract address and reference data from return letters, including process integration, scale, human review points and supplier involvement.
Adoption of AI
GOV.UK. The DWP transparency record shows the “CMG Return Letters processing” tool is in production use, positioned as workflow automation for processing undeliverable correspondence at scale, with a defined human review fallback where extraction fails.
Reuters. British banks are advancing customer-facing trials of agentic AI with the FCA, raising governance, accountability and systemic-risk questions under existing UK regulatory frameworks as pilots move towards early 2026 launches.
Events
European Data Protection Supervisor. Data Protection Day 2026 (co-organised by EDPS and the Council of Europe) is scheduled for 28 January 2026 in Brussels, with agenda focus on the next generation of EU data protection legislation and regulatory resilience.
Takeaway
The key signal today is a governance move from principle to implementation: the UK is publishing granular transparency records for deployed AI tools, while EU data protection institutions are actively mapping AI risk and supervision priorities in anticipation of the AI Act’s operational phase. In parallel, UK human-rights scrutiny of AI continues to develop through parliamentary engagement, keeping accountability and safeguards in focus.
Sources: The Law Society, European Data Protection Supervisor, GOV.UK, DPIIT, Reuters