The Austrian advocacy group NOYB filed a complaint on Monday (12) against social media platform X, accusing the company of ownership of Elon Musk to train your artificial intelligence (AI) with users' personal data without their consent, in violation of the privacy law of European Union (EU). The group, led by privacy activist Max Schrems, announced that it had lodged complaints relating to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) with authorities in nine European Union countries to increase pressure on the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC). ).
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Ireland's Data Protection Commission, the EU's main regulator for most major US internet companies due to the country's location of their EU operations, sought an order to suspend or restrict X from processing users' data. with the aim of developing, training or improving your AI systems.
AX has agreed not to train its AI systems for now using personal data collected from EU users before they were given the option to withdraw their consent, an Irish court heard last week.
However, NOYB said the complaint to the DPC is primarily concerned with X's mitigation measures and lack of cooperation, and not questionthe legality of the data processing itself.
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“We want to ensure that Twitter fully complies with EU law, which – at a minimum – requires that users be asked for consent in this case,” Schrems said in a statement, referring to X by its former name. At last week's hearing, an Irish court found that X gave its users the opportunity to object several weeks after data collection began.
AX did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Monday. The X Global Government Affairs account stated on Friday that the company continuedaria working with DPC on AI issues. In June, Facebook's parent company, Meta, announced that it would not launcharia its AI assistant in Europe for now, after the Irish DPC asked it to postpone the plan. NOYB had also filed complaints in several countries against the use of personal data to train the software in this case.
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