Summary:
- X faces privacy complaints for using personal data without user consent.
- The European Center for Digital Rights (Noyb) claims X is feeding data from over 60 million European users into its AI technology unlawfully.
- Noyb seeks urgent legal action from European data protection authorities.
Elon Musk’s social media platform, X, is under scrutiny for allegedly using personal data without consent to train its artificial intelligence. The European Center for Digital Rights, known as Noyb, has filed complaints against X, accusing it of feeding data from over 60 million European users into its Grok AI technology without informing them or seeking their approval.
The complaints emerged after Ireland’s Data Protection Commission (DPC) took legal action against X earlier this month for its data collection practices. Noyb has criticized X for failing to notify users about this data use, with many discovering the issue through social media posts.
Although the DPC has ordered X to halt this data processing, Noyb founder Max Schrems argues that the action does not address the core legality of the data usage. Noyb is pushing for a full investigation and has filed complaints in several European countries, urging data protection authorities to take immediate action.
The group aims to ensure X complies with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), which requires explicit user consent for data use. Noyb has previously achieved similar outcomes against other tech giants, prompting regulatory responses and halting their AI initiatives.
