Elon Musk’s X under pressure from regulators over data harvesting for Grok AI
by Dan Milmo Global technology editor from Technology | The Guardian on (#6PH7H)
Social media platform uses pre-ticked boxes of consent, a practice that violates UK and EU GDPR rules
Elon Musk's X platform is under pressure from data regulators after it emerged that users are consenting to their posts being used to build artificial intelligence systems via a default setting on the app.
The UK and Irish data watchdogs said they have contacted X over the apparent attempt to gain user consent for data harvesting without them knowing about it.
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