Italy watchdog says OpenAI’s ChatGPT breaches privacy rules

MILAN: Italy’s data protection authority said on Monday it told OpenAI that its artificial intelligence chatbot application ChatGPT breaches data protection rules.

The Italian watchdog, known as Garante – one of the European Union’s most proactive in assessing AI platform compliance with the bloc’s data privacy regime – last year briefly banned ChatGPT over the alleged breach of EU privacy rules.

At the time, the regulator also launched a probe, which has now concluded that there are elements indicating one or more potential data privacy violations, it said in a statement.