Ireland’s confidentiality regulator examines the use of public data from X for Grok training
The Data Privacy Regulator in Ireland is investigating X. The Data Protection Commission in Elon Musk (DPC) said Friday (by Reuters) that opens an inquiry about the use of the social publication of public publications of European consumers to train their CongratulationsS In this case, Ireland is coping with the implementation of EU regulation, as the European headquarters of X is in Dublin.
The DPC said it would study “Personal Data Processing contained in publicly available publications published on the” X “platform by EU/EEA users. Under Europe General Rules for Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)Ireland has the legitimate muscle to fines X to four percent of its global revenue.
“The purpose of this investigation is to determine whether these personal data have been legally processed to train Grok LLMS,” Ireland DPC said.
If that sounds familiar, DPC Took X in court in 2024Looking for an order to stop training Grok of EU user data without consent. This followed a change in the July platform policy that left the social site Use public posts to train your AI chatbotS However, the data regulator in Ireland, however ended Legal production weeks later, stating that the company has agreed to constantly restrict the use of EU users’ personal data in GROK. The DPC does not specify why it now thinks the company can violate GDPR rules.
The last DPC fine against the company (then known as Twitter) was a a EUR 450,000 penalty In 2020, he did not notify the data breach regulator within the 72-hour window.
This article originally appeared on Engadget at https://www.engadget.com/big-tech/irelands-privacy-regulator-is-investigating-x-use- Public-Data-t-Train-82015.
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