The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has notified to OpenAI, the company that produces ChatGPT, of alleged violations of privacy laws in the regionand it hadn't even passed a lot of time since the last time ChatGPT was actually blocked on Italian territory, complete with a dedicated Android application.
What are the violations of OpenAI according to the Italian authorities
“The available evidence indicated the presence of violations of the provisions contained in the European Union GDPR [Regolamento Generale sulla Protezione dei Dati]” has declared the Guarantor for the protection of personal data (also known as the Guarantor) in a statement on Monday and further stated that “will take into account the ongoing work within the task force [istituita] ad hoc established by the European Data Protection Framework (EDPB) in its final determination on the case.”
The development comes nearly 10 months after the regulator imposed a temporary ban on ChatGPT in the country, weeks after which OpenAI has announced a number of privacy controls, including a module to opt-out to remove personal data from processing by the large language model (LLM); Access to the tool was subsequently restored at the end of April 2023.
The Italian DPA said the latest findings, not yet disclosed publiclyare the result of a multi-month investigation launched at the same time; OpenAI was given 30 days to respond to the allegations.
The BBC subsequently reported That the violations are related to personal data collection and age-related protections; therefore OpenAI, in its help pagestates that “ChatGPT is not intended for children under 13 years of age, and we require that minors between the ages of 13 and 18 obtain parental consent before using ChatGPT.”
But there are also concerns that sensitive information may be exposed and younger users may be exposed to inappropriate content generated by the chatbot.
Indeed, Ars Technica has reported this week that ChatGPT is disclosing private conversations that include login credentials and other personal details of unrelated users claimed to be employees of a prescription drug portal.
After that, in September 2023, it is emerged than Google's Bard chatbot had a flaw in the sharing feature that allowed Google search to index private chatsunintentionally exposing sensitive information that may have been shared in conversations.
Generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Bard, and Anthropic Claude they depend on being fed large amounts of data from different sources on the Internet.
In a statement shared from the TechCrunch website, OpenAI stated that its “practices comply with the GDPR and other privacy laws, and we take additional measures to protect people's data and privacy.”
Apple is against a proposed law in the United Kingdom
As if the problems of ChatGPT, property of OpenAI, were not enough, In the United Kingdom, events occur that are closely related to the latter.
This development comes as Apple claims to be “deeply worried” for proposed amendments to the Investigatory Powers Act (IPA) of the United Kingdom, which could give the government unprecedented “backdoor veto” power over privacy and security updates to its products and services.
“It is an unprecedented excess on the part of the government and, if implemented, the UK could try to secretly block new user protections globally, preventing us from ever offering them to customers” has declared the well-known company Apple to the BBC.
The UK Home Office has stated that the adoption of secure communications technologies, including end-to-end encryption, it cannot be at the expense of public safety and the protection of the nation from child sexual abuse and terrorists; the changes aim to improve the intelligence community's ability to “respond with greater agility and speed to existing and emerging threats to national security.”
In particular, they require technology companies to: receive data requests from the UK government to notify the UK government of any technical changes that may impact their “existing lawful access capabilities.”
“A driving force for this amendment is to give operational partners time to understand the change and adapt their investigative techniques if necessary, which in some circumstances may be all that is needed to maintain legal access” he claims the British government in an information document on the official website, adding that “does not provide powers for the Secretary of State to approve or reject technical changes.”
Apple, in July 2023, said that would rather stop offering iMessage and FaceTime services in the UK than compromise users' privacy and security.
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