Italy's privacy regulator temporarily bans ChatGPT and probes OpenAI, claiming the company has no legal basis for “mass collection and storage of personal data”
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John Hendel / Politico : 5 questions for Brenda Darden Wilkerson Adaeze Uche / MakeUseOf : Why Italy Has Banned ChatGPT “With Immediate Effect” Livemint : This European country bans ChatGPT; Here's why Dan Milmo / The Guardian : Italy's privacy watchdog bans ChatGPT over data breach concerns Deutsche Welle : ChatGPT: Italy blocks AI chatbot over privacy concerns Alessandra Migliaccio / Bloomberg : EU Is Open to Review Italian Requests on Tweaks to Recovery Fund Habiba Rashid / HackRead : Italy Temporarily Blocks ChatGPT, Citing Privacy Issues Arden Dier / Newser : Watchdog in Italy Blocks GPT Andy Chalk / PC Gamer : Italy bans ChatGPT Juliana Kim / NPR : ChatGPT is temporarily banned in Italy amid an investigation into data collection Financial Times : Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns Oliver Haslam / Redmond Pie : Italy Is Ready To Ban ChatGPT, Here's Why James Reddick / The Record : ChatGPT privacy and safety concerns lead to temporary ban in Italy GovTech : What country has banned ChatGPT? Akshaya Asokan / BankInfoSecurity.com : Italian Privacy Watchdog Imposes ChatGPT Ban Tolu Ajiboye / Coinspeaker : Italy Data Regulator Imposes Ban on ChatGPT for Allegedly Breaching Data Privacy Ariel Zilber / New York Post : Italy bans ChatGPT over ‘privacy’ concerns, cites kids' safety Nickie Louise / Tech Startups : Italy bans OpenAI's ChatGPT over privacy concerns Claire Parker / Washington Post : Italy temporarily bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns Rahul Srinivas / SlashGear : Italy May Fine OpenAI $20 Million, Block ChatGPT For Violating Data Protection Laws Kyt Dotson / SiliconANGLE : ChatGPT banned by Italian regulators over privacy concerns Jeremy Kahn / Fortune : Everyone wants better A.I. governance, but a lot of people didn't like Elon Musk's A.I. pause letter Brandon Vigliarolo / The Register : Italy bans ChatGPT for ‘unlawful collection of personal data’ ChinaTechNews.com : Italy Blocks ChatGPT, Starts Probe Over Privacy Concerns Alan Truly / Digital Trends : ChatGPT gets banned in Italy as the fight against AI begins Alessandro Mascellino / Infosecurity : Italy's Privacy Watchdog Blocks ChatGPT Amid Privacy Concerns Ryan Morrison / Tech Monitor : ChatGPT blocked in Italy over privacy concerns Michael Kan / PCMag : Italy to Block ChatGPT for ‘Unlawfully’ Collecting Users' Data CNN : Italy blocks ChatGPT over privacy concerns Damilola Lawrence / Cryptopolitan : Italian data protection agency blocks AI chatbot ChatGPT Laurent Giret / Thurrott : Italian Privacy Regulator Bans ChatGPT Over Data Privacy Concerns Andrew Romero / 9to5Google : Italy cuts off ChatGPT due to privacy concerns Chris Smith / BGR : Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy laws, and I'm not surprised Jody Serrano / Gizmodo : Italy Bans ChatGPT and Says It Will Investigate OpenAI, Agne Cimermanaite / Metaverse Post : Italy Bans ChatGPT Due to Alleged Privacy Violations Luca Bertuzzi / Euractiv : Italian data protection authority bans ChatGPT citing privacy violations Ezra Reguerra / Cointelegraph : Italy blocks ChatGPT, investigates suspected violations Michael Hill / CSO : Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT over collection, storage of personal data Pete Syme / Insider : ChatGPT banned by regulator in Italy, which says there's no legal basis for using personal data to train the chatbot following data breach Paigambar Mohan Raj / Watcher Guru : Italy Bans ChatGPT Over Privacy Breach Concerns Joel Loynds / Dexerto : Italy bans ChatGPT over privacy concerns Gary Marcus / The Road to AI We Can Trust : Italian ban on ChatGPT Jai Pratap / CoinGape : Italian Regulator Bans ChatGPT Over Alleged Privacy Violations. Rui Carmo / Tao of Mac : ITALIAN PRIVACY REGULATOR BANS CHATGPT ※ Heinrich Long / RestorePrivacy : Italian Data Authority Targets ChatGPT for Privacy Violations LinkedIn: Mala Ramakrishnan : I can't believe it's taken a whole month for a privacy watchdog to wake up on Generative AI. And of course it has to be a country from the EU. … Daniel Huynh : 🔐 #ChatGPT is banned in Italy due to privacy concerns! — TL;DR the concentration of personal data into one centralized actor … Theo Priestley : I did call this out literally yesterday and now it's happening. Italy has restricted #ChatGPT over personal data privacy issues, using personal data for training the models and inference. … Stewart Room : Italy joins Russia, China, North Korea and Iran in banning ChapGPT. Some countries hate it because it's democracy-enabling, other's because it's privacy-threatening. … Arun Sundararajan : The faster you grow, the faster you attract regulatory backlash. Italy's ban is about privacy and a known breach, but raises fascinating new challenges. … Ayal Steinberg : Italy becomes the first Western country to ban ChatGPT and investigate OpenAI “with immediate effect”. … Walter Rizzi : Italy: the first country to ban/regulate, the last to invent. We have a wonderful future behind us. — (Btw, nothing to do with the development pause) … Ryan Carrier : The rollout of GPT-4, ChatGpT privacy breaches of user queries, Center for AI and Digital Policy Federal Trade Commission complaint. … Mastodon: Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange : There's an entire field of AI safety and ethics talking about disinformation. Who cares about disinformation? We're not in any way short on that. So what if disinformation goes from $.02/tweet to $.0002/tweet. … Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange : We're designing large language models with comprehension capabilities beyond anything computers have ever been capable of, and states are militating to put language models into your phone to scan private messages. … Matthew Green / @matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange : And that's what these models give, at almost unlimited scale. The ability to understand and monitor billions of people with all their complexity, at a super-human level of comprehension. … Tweets: Sam Altman / @sama : We of course defer to the Italian government and have ceased offering ChatGPT in Italy (though we think we are following all privacy laws). Italy is one of my favorite countries and I look forward to visiting again soon! Gavin Sheridan / @gavinsblog : I wonder is @OpenAI performing the biggest act of “don't ask for permission, ask for forgiveness” in human history. They appear to have scraped everyone's content on the internet under a US interpretation of fair use. And that's different from, say, search engines. Lorenzo Green / @mrgreen : BREAKING: Italy bans ChatGPT! Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT, due data leaks & mass collection and storage of consumer data, including from minors. The Italian regulator said it would ban and investigate OpenAI “with immediate effect”. “until the company respects the... https://twitter.com/... https://twitter.com/... Clothilde Goujard / @clothildegouj : 🇮🇹🤖 Italy's privacy regulator has just banned ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. I asked the AI chatbot if it thinks it's fair. Here's what it told me. 👇 Read the full article: https://www.politico.eu/... https://twitter.com/... @elchefe : I imagine we are going to see more of this and tbh, we probably need time to evaluate the ramifications of using chatgpt before this horse gets too far out of the gate. https://twitter.com/... Jack Smith / @_jacksmith : why would minors need to be blocked from using chatgpt? that's like saying that minors should be blocked from using Google: https://techcrunch.com/... another case of governments not understanding technology Tero Kuittinen / @teroterotero : Rest of the world will be ruled by godlike machine minds & Italians will still be just making mozzarella and sipping Chianti https://twitter.com/... Jameson Lopp / @lopp : Authoritarians will find AI bans to be incredibly difficult to enforce. https://www.politico.eu/... Tom Wenseleers / @twenseleers : Italy blocks access to ChatGPT, citing European GDPR legislation and also the lack of the system to prevent access to minors. Also mentions the earlier ‘right to be forgotten’ case. Yes, that really is how backward Europe has become... https://techcrunch.com/... via @techcrunch @techwontsaveus : “Italy's national privacy regulator has ordered an effective ban of AI chatbot ChatGPT, accusing creators OpenAI of ‘unlawful collection of personal data’. It's ordered OpenAI to stop collecting Italian users' data immediately.” https://www.theverge.com/... Petr Royce / @petrroyce : “The company also processes data inaccurately, it added.” - huh? https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Is Italy setting the precedent that any information about me in Google search requires my consent before it can be collected and processed? EU privacy rulings have been going further and further to invalidate how the internet currently works but this is the biggest leap yet. @mikarv : Italian DPA issues a immediate, temporary limitation on OpenAI processing personal data in Italy as part of #ChatGPT, on the basis of - no legal basis - lack of accuracy - no age verification of users - no filters for under 13s https://www.garanteprivacy.it/ ... #GDPR #GarantePrivacy #GPDP Mike Taylor / @hammer_mt : This is like banning books because personal information was used to train the authors. https://twitter.com/... Dare Obasanjo / @carnage4life : Italy has banned ChatGPT for violating the GDPR because OpenAI lacks a legal basis justifying “the mass collection and storage of personal data ... to ‘train’ the algorithms” of ChatGPT. Continues the trend of everything is a privacy violation in Europe https://www.politico.eu/... Justin Hendrix / @justinhendrix : The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations. The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI from processing the data of Italian users. https://www.politico.eu/... Stefano Alberto Russo / @stearusso : When I connect to a service in the US, my bits are traveling there. #Italy “banning” #OpenAI 's #ChatGPT (whatever it means) is like preventing me from getting high in Amsterdam because, as an Italian citizen, I should not be allowed to.. Never got it, and never will. ChristinaPatsioura / @christpatsi : Italy's Data Protection Authority blocked #ChatGPT, as it did not respect user data and could not verify users' age. The decision “with immediate effect” will result in “the temporary limitation of the processing of Italian user data vis-a-vis #OpenAI” https://twitter.com/... @netnym : A bit of translated detail from the Italy vs. ChatGpt story, on data protection grounds etc. Hadn't thought of that, but is an obvious difficulty w. hindsight. https://twitter.com/... Cesare G. Ardito / @cesaregardito : Italy's data protection authority @GPDP_IT just “limited” #ChatGPT due to: - Insufficient safeguards for under 13s. - Incorrect info could constitute “Inaccurate processing of personal data”. - Concerns on using messages for training. Consequences unclear. https://garanteprivacy.it/... Dario Dallefrate / @d_a_r_i_u_x : 🚨 Leaking proprietary information through #chatgpt ? 🚨 Several companies are worried about it. But now, governments are getting concerned about citizens' data too! Italy is taking a step forward today by opening the door to thes... https://www.linkedin.com/... https://www.reuters.com/... @martinsfp : 😮 ChatGPT banned in Italy. OpenAI “lacks a legal basis justifying ‘the mass collection and storage of personal data ... to ‘train’ the algorithms’” https://www.politico.eu/...