X Caves To EU Regulators In User Data Privacy Case

August 9, 2024 European Union, Social Media

Agence France-Presse reports:

Social platform X said Friday it would work European regulators after agreeing to suspended its heavily criticized use of European users’ personal data to train its artificial intelligence chatbot Grok.

After Elon Musk’s social platform began using personal data in public posts made by European users Ireland’s Data Protection Commission, the DPC, launched a court case arguing that violated users’ data privacy rights.

As X has its European headquarters in Ireland, the country’s data protection commission is the lead regulator in Europe for the social platform.

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Social media platform X agreed not to train its AI systems for now using the personal data collected from European Union users. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission sought an order to suspend or restrict X from processing the data of users https://t.co/P22gdKFS6X pic.twitter.com/HlrJH1afWO

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