Vienna: Agencies
The European Center for Digital Rights (a non-profit organization) revealed that complaints were filed in 8 European countries against the social network "X" for accusing it of illegally using personal data of Internet users to train its artificial intelligence program. According to what was reported by the Youm7 website in Cairo from the Middle East News Agency.
The non-governmental organization based in Vienna stated - in a press release today, Monday, reported by the French newspaper "Le Figaro" - "X did not proactively inform its users that their personal data was used to train its (Grok AI) technology, and most citizens discovered the new settings already implemented thanks to a message from a user on July 26, asking the various national regulatory bodies to take emergency measures."
The center, which had already forced Meta to backtrack in June on steps on the same issue, filed complaints in France, Austria, Belgium, Greece, Ireland, Italy, Spain and the Netherlands to force the social network to respect the rights of its users, who number more than 60 million in Europe.
The center referred, in its statement, to Elon Musk's network's announcement to suspend the use of personal data after an agreement was reached with the Irish Data Protection Commission, which works on behalf of the European Union.. calling for a full investigation to ensure that Twitter (the former name of the X network) fully respects the data protection regulation that requires the consent of Internet users. For his part, Max Schrems, director of the European Center for Digital Rights, said, "It seems that the Irish Data Protection Commission did not question the legitimacy of the process itself and does not address the essence of the problem." The center has filed several complaints against Internet giants, and the complaint against Meta led to "administrative fines exceeding 1.5 billion euros." The American social media giant (owner of Facebook and Instagram), which was targeted by complaints from the center in 11 European countries, was forced to suspend its project in June to use its users' personal data in an artificial intelligence program.