Privacy organisation Open Rights Group has branded a move by social network X (formerly Twitter) to use user data to train its Grok AI as a “blatant breach of GDPR”.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is an EU law protecting people’s data, and is implemented in the UK as part of the Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018). The new X setting is on by default for most users, and allows the network to gather information to train Grok.
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Source: Yahoo News
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