The Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) is officially investigating how X (formerly Twitter) handled the data of its European users. Last summer, the social network began harvesting messages to train Grok, the chatbot from xAI (which has since "swallowed" X). The only problem: the company had "forgotten" to include an opt-out option, which was corrected. since after a slap on the wrist.
The Irish regulator, which is responsible for overseeing large technology companies with European headquarters in Ireland — such as X, Meta, or Apple — says its investigation will focus on X's compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). In particular, the DPC wants to know whether the "publicly accessible" messages were processed lawfully and transparently to train Grok's AI model.
Last August, Twitter agreed to not to train xAI's AI with data collected from European users during the period when the opt-out option was not available in the site's settings. To find out how to do this, head to this tutorial.
This new European investigation is in addition to all those targeting X/Twitter, particularly in connection with the Digital Services Regulation (DSA), which could cost the company dearly. This will not be likely to calm tensions between Washington and Brussels.
Source: DPC
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