Tag: Data protection

. This article examines the issues around the decision by Italy's data protection agency, Garante, to ban OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot application. It highlights the potential privacy issues and lack of age verification measures that led to the decision. Following an uproar from industry professionals and a surge in VPN downloads, OpenAI's cooperation and commitment to meeting the April deadline ultimately led to the rescinding of the ban. An interesting case that raises questions around the effectiveness and proportionality of data protection regulation, while also emphasizing the importance of protecting children from dangerous content. Key takeaway: in such cases, a cooperative dialogue between the parties is essential.

Meta, a digital product and service company providing platforms like Whatsapp, Instagram and Facebook, is under scrutiny by Italy's antitrust authority. The dispute, concerning music rights regulated by SIAE, comes as Italy recently banned AI chatbot ChatGPT, in February, and looks to potentially retract the ban by April 30. Headquartered in San Francisco, Meta continues to work through copyright issues and the Italy Data Protection Authority urges the company to reach an agreement and not bar market competition.

Betterdata, a Singapore-based startup, has raised $1.55M from prominent venture capitalists to develop programmable synthetic data and privacy engineering solutions that protect real data while complying with all the data protection regulations. By using generative AI models, the company creates datasets similar to the real world without any leakage of confidential info. Lead investor Investible applauded the initiative of the Dr. Uzair Javaid-founded startup to tackle the lack of quality data that meets the privacy requirements.

OpenAI has been recently confronted by the Italian authorities with an order concerning its AI chatbot, ChatGPT. This resulted from a data leak revealing users' chat histories and financial records, visible to the Garante, the Italian data protection authority. To protect users' data and rights, tech professionals, including Elon Musk and Steve Wozniak, have signed an open letter urging AI labs to stop training AI systems beyond GPT-4 level for six months. OpenAI now has twenty days to comply to the Garante's recommendations or face fines of up to 20 million euros.

This article covers the investigation conducted by the Office of Privacy Commissioner of Canada and the Italian Data Protection Authority on OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, due to a data breach. Further, this article provides an overview of the instructions given to OpenAI and the potential hefty fine they are facing. Having legal measures in place is essential to protect organizations against potential risks when incorporating AI in their operations.