X is under investigation in nine European nations for improper data use for AI.
On Monday, nine EU countries filed complaints against the social networking site X, alleging that the artificial intelligence company xAI was gathering personal data without users’ consent.
Noyb (None of Your Business), a Vienna-based non-governmental organization that studies data security, announced that it has filed complaints against the xAI program in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland for violating the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
Noyb stated that X has begun to illegally use the personal data of over 60 million European customers to develop artificial intelligence technologies such as Grok, a generative AI chatbot created by xAI, without their agreement or prior warning.
It noted that the Irish Data Protection Commission launched legal actions against X last week to cease the illegal data processing and that Noyb filed official complaints against X in nine countries since Ireland failed to fully apply the GDPR.
Elon Musk, the owner of both X and xAI, is a US business entrepreneur.
