Ireland's Data Protection Commission (DPC), the European Union's main privacy regulator for leading U.S. tech companies, has launched an investigation into Google's handling of EU users' data. The inquiry aims to determine whether the tech giant sufficiently safeguarded personal information before using it to develop its Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2), a foundational AI model.
The DPC, which oversees data protection due to the concentration of major U.S. tech firms' EU operations in Ireland, announced that this investigation is part of a broader collaborative effort with other EU and European Economic Area (EEA) regulators to ensure that personal data processing for AI development complies with privacy regulations.
This inquiry follows a recent agreement by social media platform X, which pledged not to use EU users' data to train its AI systems unless users have been given the chance to withdraw their consent. This agreement came after court action by the Irish regulator.
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Top EU privacy regulator probes Google's use of EU data for AI model
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