Irish regulator investigating x on the use of personal data from the EU to train Grok AI

Dublin (Reuters) -Ireland’s dating regulator on Friday said it opened an investigation into social media platform X about the use of personal data collected by users of the European Union to train its AI system. Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) is the main EU regulator for X due to the location of its EU operations in the country. This has the power to impose fines of up to 4% of the global revenue of a company under the Strict General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) of the EU. The investigation will look at “the processing of personal data consisting of publicly accessible posts placed on the X-Social Media platform by EU/EEA users, with a view to training generative artificial intelligence models,” the DPC said in a statement. US President Donald Trump and other members of his administration have criticized the EU regulation of US businesses and fined EU fines on US technical companies as a form of tax. X owner Elon Musk, the richest man in the world and a top adviser for Trump, also affected EU regulations, mainly those who imposed Brussels directly on online content. The ruling follows a court case last year in which the Irish regulator asked an order to limit X to process EU users with the aim of developing its AI systems. X agreed to stop training its AI systems using personal data collected from EU users before they had the option to withdraw their consent. The Irish regulator ended his court proceedings weeks later, saying X agreed the limits on a permanent basis. The powerful Irish Privacy Regulator fined a fine of Like Microsoft’s LinkedIn, Tiktok and Meta, as it received sanctions in 2018. The fines until the date of Meta -total nearly 3 billion euros. X, or Twitter, as it was called at the time, has not faced sanctions since the DPC fined 450,000 euros ($ 511,000) in 2020, the first fine to distribute the regulator under the new data private. ($ 1 = 0.8808 euros) (Write by Conor Humphries; Editing by Catarina Demony) First Published: 12 Apr 2025, 03:50 am Ist