A Vienna-based privacy advocacy group, the European Center for Digital Rights, also known as Noyb, has filed complaints in eight European countries against Elon Musk’s X, formerly known as Twitter.
The group accuses X of unlawfully using users’ data to train its artificial intelligence technology without their consent.
Noyb claims that X has been ‘irreversibly feeding’ the data of over 60 million European users into its Grok AI system without informing them or seeking their approval.
The complaints follow legal action earlier this month by Ireland’s Data Protection Commission against X for its data collection practices.
Despite X agreeing to suspend this controversial data processing, Noyb founder Max Schrems criticized the Irish regulator for failing to address the core issue of the legality of the data processing itself while calling for a full investigation, warning that it is still unclear what has happened to the data already ingested by X.
Noyb has requested an urgent procedure from data protection authorities in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands, and Spain to ensure that X complies with the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) whereby mandating that companies must seek user consent before using their personal information.”
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