The Italian Data Protection Authority (GPDP) recently issued a warning to local media group GEDI, indicating that its collaboration agreement with OpenAI, the parent company of ChatGPT, may violate EU privacy protection laws. According to this agreement, GEDI plans to provide its Italian language news content to ChatGPT subscribers, while OpenAI may use GEDI's news archives to enhance the accuracy of its products. The GPDP stressed that GEDI's digital archive contains a significant amount of personal information, including numerous details and even sensitive data.

Social media platform X (formerly Twitter) faces privacy complaints from nine countries for using EU users' data without consent to train its AI chatbot Grok. The Irish Data Protection Commission expressed surprise at this behavior. Under the EU's General Data Protection Regulation, companies must have legal grounds to process personal data or face hefty fines. Complaints indicate X processed data from about 60 million EU users without clear noti....