Data Protection Commission says firm agreed to ‘suspend its processing of the personal data’
The company behind X, the social network formerly known as Twitter, has stopped using EU user data to train its Grok artificial intelligence tool, the Irish data regulator has said.
X agreed to “suspend its processing of the personal data contained in the public posts of X’s EU/EEA users which it processed between 7 May 2024 and 1 August 2024, for the purpose of training its AI ‘Grok,’” the Data Protection Commission said in an emailed statement. The agreement comes days after the DPC took court action against the company amid concerns at how EU user data was being handled.
“Commissioner Dale Sunderland, and I welcome X’s agreement to suspend processing while the DPC, working in conjunction with our EU/EEA peer regulators, continue to examine the extent to which the processing complies with the GDPR,” DPC chairman Dr Des Hogan, said.
This was the first time that any Lead Supervisory Authority has taken such action, and the first time that the DPC has sought to utilise its powers under Section 134. This application was made to protect the rights and freedoms of X’s EU/EEA users, and came after extensive engagement between the DPC and X regarding its AI Model training, the DPC added.
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