The Irish Knowledge Safety Fee (DPC) has introduced that it has commenced a “Cross-Border statutory inquiry” into Google’s foundational synthetic intelligence (AI) mannequin to find out whether or not the tech large has adhered to information safety laws within the area when processing the private information of European customers.
“The statutory inquiry concerns the question of whether Google has complied with any obligations that it may have had to undertake an assessment, pursuant to Article 35[2] of the General Data Protection Regulation (Data Protection Impact Assessment), prior to engaging in the processing of the personal data of E.U./E.E.A. data subjects associated with the development of its foundational AI model, Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2),” the DPC stated.
PaLM 2 is Google’s state-of-the-art language mannequin with improved multilingual, reasoning, and coding capabilities. It was unveiled by the corporate in Could 2023.
With Google’s European headquarters based mostly in Dublin, the DPC acts as the first regulator answerable for ensuring the corporate abides by the bloc’s stringent information privateness rulebook.
The DPC stated an inquiry is essential to make sure that people’ elementary rights and freedoms are safeguarded, particularly when processing of such information when growing AI methods can result in a “high risk.”
The event comes weeks after social media platform X completely agreed to not practice its AI chatbot, Grok, utilizing the private information it collected from European customers with out acquiring prior consent. Again in August, the DPC stated X consented to droop its “processing of the personal data contained in the public posts of X’s E.U./E.E.A. users which it processed between 7 May 2024 and 1 August 2024.”
Meta, which lately admitted to scraping each Australian grownup Fb person’s public information to coach its Llama AI fashions with out giving them an opt-out, has paused its plans to make use of content material posted by European customers following a request from the DPC over privateness considerations. It has additionally suspended using generative AI (GenAI) in Brazil after the nation’s information safety authority issued a preliminary ban objecting to its new privateness coverage.
Final yr, Italy’s information privateness regulator additionally quickly banned OpenAI’s ChatGPT due to considerations that its practices are in violation of knowledge safety legal guidelines within the area.
