A Vienna-based privacy campaign group lodged complaints in eight European countries against Elon Musk’s X yesterday over “unlawfully” feeding the personal data of users into its AI technology without their consent.
The complaints filed by the European Center for Digital Rights — also known as Noyb — come after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission earlier this month took court action against X over its data collection practices to train its AI.
X had recently started “irreversibly feeding” the personal data of more than 60 million European users into its Grok AI technology, “without ever informing them or asking for their consent”, according to Noyb.
Noyb slammed X for “never proactively informing” its users that their data is being used for AI training, saying many people appeared to have “found out about the new default setting through a viral post on 26 July”.
