Mar 31, 2023Confirmed
ChatGPT Reportedly Banned by Italian Authority Due to OpenAI's Purported Lack of Legal Basis for Data Collection and Age Verification
Rogue: Caused harmAI loose in the worldData exfiltrationDERIVED
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Italy's data protection authority is reported to have temporarily limited OpenAI's processing of Italian users' data after alleging that ChatGPT lacked adequate notice and legal basis for large-scale personal data collection and processing used to train the system. The authority also cited a March 2023 data breach, possible processing of inaccurate personal data, and the absence of age-verification safeguards for children.
What this means for youItaly's privacy regulator temporarily limited ChatGPT over how it collected personal data and the March 2023 breach, which exposed some users' information. Parents and workers should avoid putting personal or children's details into chatbots and check whether their own accounts had exposed data.
Sources
- AI Incident Databasehttps://incidentdatabase.ai/cite/513
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