2024-08-07 19:45:24
The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) has been launched emotional process before the Supreme Court of the European Union against X, formerly Twitter, for using the personal data of European users without their consent to train Grok’s artificial intelligence (AI) model.
The DPC is Ireland’s independent authority responsible for protecting the personal data of European Union citizens, which have already researched other platformslike Instagram, because of how it manages and uses user data.
Now, this organization has shared its concern about the activities of X, owned by Elon Musk, which is alleged to have collected the personal data of European users, receiving them through their publications on the social network.
The platform activated a new privacy and security option in user accounts at the end of last July with which permission is given in the company to use posts and conversations with the ‘chatbot’ to train your Grok language model.
However, after conducting an investigation, the DPC suspected that does not comply with the obligations of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union, given that, despite presenting this option as an opt-out mechanism, would have collected this data without prior consent.
Therefore, he has started a complaint procedure against X before the Supreme Court of the European Union. In fact, contra Twitter International Unlimited Company -part of X in Ireland-, as shared by the National Radio Television of Ireland (RTE) and reported by media like TechCrunch.
Likewise, DPC has claimed millions of European users has made him continue to be a victim of the collection of this data by X, since they have not been given a truly effective option for the platform to freely stop accessing their information, as GDPR requires.
Along these lines, this organization has also shared its concern about the launch of the next generation of Grok ‘chatbot’, which, according to it, has been staff with users’ personal data of the European Union.
Furthermore, it has been pointed out that have refused requests to stop the processing of personal data of users and has refused to postpone the release of the next version of Grok. In fact, the social network denies that it has done any wrongdoing in this case, as RTE shared.
For all these reasons, the DPC has requested that order stop, restrict or prohibit the processing of personal data of users of X to develop, train or modify any learning or other AI programs used by X.
Likewise, the organization has shown the urgency of the event and has shown that, to clarify the law of user data processing, it will also will send the complaint to the European Data Protection Commissionthe independent body in charge of GDPR in the EU.
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