Italy's data protection agency has launched an investigation into OpenAI's illegal collection of user data.
The Italian Personal Data Protection Authority announced today that it will ban the use of the chatbot ChatGPT and restrict the American artificial intelligence company OpenAI, which developed the platform, from processing Italian user information. At the same time, the Italian Personal Data Protection Authority pointed out that on the 20th of this month, the ChatGPT platform experienced "loss of user conversation data and payment service payment information." In addition, the platform did not inform about the collection and processing of user information, and lacked the legal basis for the large-scale collection and storage of personal information.
OpenAI "must inform the Italian Personal Data Protection Authority through its European representative within 20 days of the measures taken by the company to implement the Protection Authority's requirements", otherwise it will be fined up to 20 million euros or 4% of the company's global annual turnover. (Jinshi)