OpenAI Accused of Breaching EU Data Protection Law by Italy

The creator of ChatGPT has 30 days to respond to allegations of violating GDPR, following a temporary ban last year.

OpenAI, the creator of ChatGPT, has been accused by Italian authorities of breaching EU data protection law, with the US firm given 30 days to respond.
Italy's data protection watchdog blocked ChatGPT last year for a few weeks, becoming the first Western country to take such action.
The watchdog concluded that the 'available evidence pointed to the existence of breaches of the provisions contained in the EU GDPR', the European Union's general data protection regulation.
Last year, the Italian watchdog said OpenAI had no legal basis to justify the mass collection and storage of personal data for training the algorithms underlying the operation of ChatGPT.
The watchdog also highlighted a lack of clarity over whose data was being collected.