Ireland's privacy regulator is investigating X's use of public data to train Grok

Eire’s information privateness regulator is investigating Elon Musk’s X. The nation’s Information Safety Fee (DPC) said on Friday (via Reuters) that it is opening an inquiry into the social platform’s use of European customers’ public posts to coach its Grok AI chatbot. On this case, Eire handles EU regulation enforcement as a result of X’s European headquarters are in Dublin.

The DPC stated it’s going to probe “the processing of non-public information comprised in publicly-accessible posts posted on the ‘X’ social media platform by EU/EEA customers.” Beneath Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) rules, Eire has the authorized muscle to nice X as much as 4 p.c of its international income.

“The aim of this inquiry is to find out whether or not this private information was lawfully processed to be able to practice the Grok LLMs,” Eire’s DPC stated.

If this sounds acquainted, the DPC took X to court in 2024, searching for an order to cease it from coaching Grok on EU consumer information with out consent. That adopted a platform coverage change in July that permit the social web site use public posts to train its AI chatbot. Nevertheless, Eire’s information regulator ended the authorized proceedings weeks later, saying the corporate had agreed to completely restrict its use of EU customers’ private information in Grok. The DPC hasn’t specified why it now believes the corporate could also be violating GDPR guidelines.

The DPC’s final nice towards the corporate (then often called Twitter) was a €450,000 penalty in 2020 for failing to inform the regulator a few information breach throughout the 72-hour window.

This text initially appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/irelands-privacy-regulator-is-investigating-xs-use-of-public-data-to-train-grok-182010855.html?src=rss

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