After proceedings in an Irish court, the local Data Protection Commission said X agreed to suspend processing personal data of EU users to train its AI system.
The social media platform X, owned by billionaire Elon Musk, has agreed to halt the collection and processing of user data in the European Union.
After a court hearing in Ireland on Aug. 7, the Data Protection Commission (DPC) said that X has agreed to, “suspend its processing of the personal data contained in the public posts of X’s EU/EEA users which it processed between May 7, 2024 and Aug. 1, 2024, for the purpose of training its AI ‘Grok.’”
The ruling covers the data of users within the EU and the European Economic Area (EEA) and comes as a result of an undertaking given by X to the Irish High Court to cease such operations brought on by the Data Protection Commissioner.
