X (previously Twitter) has updated its privacy policy with a new section in which it deals with how information with suppliers, advertisers and third parties, in which they inform that they can use “in some cases” the data of the users ” for their own independent purposes”, such as training your artificial intelligence models (AI).
In recent months, the platform has modified its conditions of use on several occasions. In particular, it has addressed the sections that are related to the safety of the members of its community. It is also not the first time that the use that can be given to publications to train their tools powered by this technology has been mentioned.
In July, X activated by default a new privacy and security option in user accounts that allows you to use publications and interactions with the chatbot. to train your Grok language model.
Some time later, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), which is responsible for the protection of personal data of citizens of the European Union, denounced the platform for training its AI tool without the consent of users months before making the tool available to them. option that allowed blocking this collection of information. Consequently, X agreed to suspend the processing of that data.
Now, Among them, he mentions the possibility of training your AI models, “whether generative or other types.”
It will depend on the user’s privacy settings
The platform has stressed on its website that everything depends on the users’ privacy settings. That way, X will only share and disclose the information of those who have permission enabled for it to be collected. However, it has not indicated where this button is located or what the procedure is to deactivate this permission.
This and other changes will come into effect on November 15 and the social network has announced that “it is possible” that users will see a notification in the application mentioning this and other new features. Users who continue to use your products and services after this date will directly accept the new Privacy Policies and Terms of Service.
Thus, it has reported that it has also modified its Privacy Policy to clarify the different types of data it retains and how long it stores it or how it can be used to train AI and other models. Also, it has incorporated updates “to better reflect” how its existing and future products, features and services work.
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