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

Irish information Privacy Regulator Elon Musk is investigating the X. Information Protection Commission (DPC) gossip Friday (with Reuters) Opening a survey on the use of social platform’s social writings of European users to train it Greet. In this case, Ireland manages the EU regulation, because X is in the European headquarters.

DPC X “processed personal information on public-owned articles published by EU / EEA users on the Social Media Platform on the Social Media Platform. “Under Europe General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) RulesThe Irish global revenues have a legal muscle up to four percent to Fine X.

“The purpose of this survey is to determine whether this individual data is legally processed to prepare the grock of the grock of information,” said Irish DPC.

If this sounds familiar, DPC In 2024, X took to courtAi is looking for an order to stop it from the training grock of user data. Followed the change of a platform policy in July Use public entries to train AI chatbot. But the Irish data regulator ended The trial was after the weeks that the company agreed to constantly restrict the use of EU users’ personal information. The DPC did not show that the company now believed that the company could violate the GDPR rules.

The company (known as Twitter later) was the final fines of the DPC 450,000 euros penalty In 2020, in the 72-hour window, to inform the regulator on a violation of information in the window.