Poland’s Personal Data Protection Office is investigating a GDPR complaint against ChatGPT and the company behind it, OpenAI. According to the Polish data protection agency: the complainant turned to the Polish supervisory authority after his requests relating to the exercise of his rights under GDPR were not completed by OpenAI. As it turns out, ChatGPT … Continue reading “Poland Opens GDPR Investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI amid Mounting Privacy Concerns”
The best solution to proprietary AI systems logging your personal data is open source chatbots, which is problematic for OpenAI, Microsoft, and Google.
Ever since the facial recognition company Clearview AI appeared from nowhere two years ago, it has remained at the leading edge of its field, not least in terms of ethics. As a recent PIA blog post reported, the company claims to be building a database holding 100 billion facial images, so that “almost everyone in … Continue reading “Clearview AI Fined in Italy, Starts Scanning Dead Russian Soldiers in Ukraine”
Italian internet service providers (ISPs), and telecommunication companies are now forced to store the logs of your electronic communications data (telephone traffic data, electronic communications traffic data and data related to unsuccessful calls) for at least 6 years. Lexology poignantly calls this development in Italian law the “shadow of mass surveillance.” The Italian Senate has recently passed the final … Continue reading “New Italian data retention laws forces ISPs to store phone usage and internet history for six years”