Twitter’s AI plans hit with 9 more GDPR complaints

Artificial Intelligence Recently, Twitter International (now re-branded as “X”) began unlawfully using the personal data of more than 60 million users in the EU/EEA to train its AI technologies (like "Grok") without their consent. Unlike Meta (which recently also had to stop AI training in the EU), Twitter did not even inform its users in advance. This went too far even for the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC): Last week, it launched court proceedings against Twitter to stop the illegal processing, but the Irish DPC seems to have stopped short of fully enforcing the GDPR. noyb now follows up with nine complaints. Complaints filed in Austria, Belgium, France, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, Spain and PolandCourt Record of the DPC -v- Twitter case in Ireland News report about the legal action by the Irish DPCPersonal data of 60 million people to train AI? As if Meta’s failed attempt to illegally use people’s personal data for AI projects did not send a clear enough message, Tw