Google AI Faces EU Scrutiny Over Privacy Compliance

The Irish Data Protection Commission is investigating whether Google conducted necessary data protection assessments for its PaLM 2 model.

The investigation focuses on Google’s compliance with the EU's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) concerning its PaLM 2 large language model.
The Irish Data Protection Commission is examining if Google performed a data protection impact assessment before deploying PaLM 2 last year.
Meta and X (formerly Twitter) have faced similar regulatory actions, with Meta halting AI training on European user data and X stopping data processing for its Grok chatbot.
Google has stated that it takes its GDPR obligations seriously and will cooperate with the Irish regulator during the investigation.
The scrutiny of AI models by EU regulators is expected to intensify with the forthcoming EU AI Act, which will introduce additional non-privacy-related rules.