Italy’s privacy watchdog ordered OpenAI to conduct a six-month public awareness campaign to promote how ChatGPT collects and uses data.
Italy’s data protection agency fined OpenAI $15.7 million (15 million euros) and ordered the ChatGPT maker to launch a six-month public awareness campaign after a data collection probe of the firm’s flagship artificial intelligence model.
The Italian Data Protection Authority (IDPA), also known as the Garante, said in a Dec. 20 statement that its investigation found that OpenAI did not notify the agency about a data breach in March 2023.
The watchdog said OpenAI also “processed users’ personal data” to train Chatbot without first identifying an “adequate legal basis” for the action, violating the “principle of transparency and the related information obligations toward users.”
