Dublin, August 12: Last week, Elon Musk's X platform was taken to the Ireland high court over allegations of misusing European citizens' data to train its Grok AI model. The platform was said to be sued under Ireland's 2018 Data Protection Act. Now, a new report has confirmed that X has been charged with total nine privacy complaints after the platform used the data of EU users to train the AI model.

According to a report by TechCrunch, Elon Musk's social media platform X has been charged with a series of privacy complaints over the use of data from European Union users. The platform did so without asking for permission from the users in the region. Last week, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) expressed concerns about X using the EU users' data. Amazon Customer Care Complaint: X User Shares His Experience Chatting With 6th Agent Till He Leaves Promising Smile.

X User Shared Twitter Activated Data Sharing Setting for Grok Training by Default

TechCrunch shared another source on X (@EasyBakedOven), which posted about the platform activating the right to use the users' data for training Grok. The user posted that Elon Musk's X never announced this, and disabling it was kept hidden. The X user said the mobile app had no option to turn off this data sharing.

The report mentioned that nine complaints have been filed against Elon Musk's X platform with data protection authorities in European countries, including France, Greece, Belgium, Austria, Italy, Spain, Ireland, Poland, and the Netherlands. The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) requires a valid legal basis from the X platform for processing  EU users' data without their consent.

NOYB chairman Max Schrems commented that there were several incidents of inefficient and partial enforcement by the Data Protection Commission in the past years despite recently taking action against X by seeking a court order. He added that X should comply with EU law and ask for the users' consent to use their data. Microsoft To Discontinue ‘Paint 3D’ Application As It Struggled To Establish User Base, Will Stop Support for App From November 4; Check More Details.

DPC already filed a complaint, but NYOB has filed GDPR complaints in Ireland and seven other countries to stop the platform from using the data. Max Schrems suggested that companies need to show simple "Yes/No" prompts before using users' data. It would also make it possible for companies to train their AI models on a regular basis.

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