Following the conclusion of the Irish Data Protection Commission's (DPC) court proceedings against social media platform X, concerns over its artificial intelligence (AI) data practices and adherence to EU data protection laws have not gone away. Questions remain about the implementation of measures to permanently stop processing some personal data for training its AI system, Grok.
The article references a quote from Austrian privacy lawyer Max Schrems after his non-profit campaign group, NOYB, announced that it had filed GDPR complaints with 9 data protection authorities across Europe on 12 August. Schrems said: "The facts that we now know from the Irish court proceedings indicate that the DPC has not really questions the core issue, which is taking all that personal data without user consent."
However, the article also points out that the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) confirmed that they have received a request for an opinion from the Irish DPC.
X did not provide a response to inquiries from EURACTIV.
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