Vienna-based privacy group has filed complaints in eight European countries against Elon Musk's X social network for "unlawfully" feeding users' personal data into its artificial intelligence (AI) technology without their consent, AFP reported.
The complaints, filed by the European Digital Rights Centre, also known as Noyb ("None of Your Business"), come after Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC) took legal action against X over the practices earlier this month its for collecting data for AI training.
X recently began irreversibly feeding the personal data of more than 60 million European users into its Grok AI technology "without informing them or seeking their consent," according to Noyb.
The group criticized X for never proactively informing its users that their data was being used for this purpose. Noyb claims that many of the users seem to have "found out about the new default upgrade via a viral post on July 26th".
Last week, Ireland's Data Protection Commission, which acts on behalf of the European Union (EU), said X had agreed to stop processing users' personal data for its technology.
But Noyb founder Max Schrems argued that the Commission had failed to "question the lawfulness" of the actual processing, but acted "on the periphery rather than at the heart of the problem".
Noyb also warned that it remains unclear what happens to already "absorbed" data within the EU.
Calling for a full investigation, Noyb has filed complaints in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, the Netherlands and Spain.
The group has requested an "urgent procedure" against X that would allow data protection authorities in eight European countries to take action. | BGNES
