Locke vs Enterprise Privacy Platforms

Enterprise privacy platforms (governance, consent and data-mapping suites) help you inventory personal data, manage subject-rights requests and prove compliance. They're essential at scale. They don't watch a free-form prompt as someone types it into a third-party AI tool.

When Enterprise privacy / governance platforms fits

  • You need to inventory personal data across hundreds of systems and meet GDPR, CCPA, and similar regulations.
  • You need to manage data-subject access, deletion, and portability requests at scale.
  • Your privacy program needs Records of Processing Activities, vendor risk, and consent receipts.

When Locke fits

  • Your governance platform tells you 'employees are using AI tools' but not what they are sending.
  • You need a control that operates at the moment of prompt composition, not at the inventory layer.
  • You want to keep the privacy layer itself out of the chain of custody (zero-knowledge).

Side-by-side

DimensionLockeEnterprise privacy platforms
Layer of the stackRuntime control on outbound prompts.Program management, inventory, and rights handling.
Touches user data?Never. Runs locally, no telemetry.Often, to power inventory and rights workflows.
Primary userEnd users at the moment they're using AI.Privacy/legal team running the compliance program.
Rollout effortPer-user install of the Locke Early Access desktop app.Cross-functional program with system integrations.
Best forStopping prompt leakage in real time.Building and proving an enterprise privacy program.

Bottom line

These aren't competitors. A privacy platform tells you what data you have and how it's used. Locke stops one kind of leak the platform wasn't built to catch.

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