BRUSSELS, Aug 12 — Social media platform X today was the target of complaints in nine European Union countries over artificial intelligence (AI) company xAI allegedly collecting personal data without users’ consent, Anadolu Agency reported.
A Vienna-based non-governmental organisation called Noyb (None Of Your Business), which studies the field of data security, announced it has filed complaints about the xAI programme in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, Spain, and Poland due to violations of the EU General Data Protection Regulation.
It reported Noyb said X has started to illegally use the personal data of more than 60 million users in Europe to develop AI technologies such as Grok, a generative AI chatbot developed by xAI, without their consent and prior notification.
Noting that the Irish Data Protection Commission initiated legal proceedings against X last week to stop the illegal processing of data, it said Noyb filed official complaints against X in nine countries because Ireland was inadequate in fully implementing the General Data Protection Regulation.
Both X and xAI are owned by United States business mogul Elon Musk.
— Bernama
