OpenAI, the company behind ChatGPT, was fined €15 million ($15.66 million) by Italy’s data protection regulator for the way the generative AI program manages user data.
The penalties was imposed almost a year after the Garante discovered that ChatGPT had violated the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the European Union by processing user data to train its service.
According to the authority, OpenAI handled user personal data to train ChatGPT without having a sufficient legal basis and failed to notify it of a security incident that occurred in March 2023. Additionally, the corporation was accused of violating the transparency principle and its related disclosure duties to users read more about Italy Fines OpenAI €15 Million for ChatGPT GDPR Data Privacy Violations.
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