It was just days ago that PogoWasRight noted news that Ireland’s Data Protection Commission had launched High Court proceedings against X because of how it uses the personal data of European users to train its artificial intelligence system, “Grok.”
There is already a new development in the case. Irish Legal News reports that the matter has been adjourned until September after lawyers for X gave a voluntary undertaking to suspend the processing of EU users’ data for training Grok.
DPC chairperson Dr Des Hogan said: “My colleague, commissioner Dale Sunderland, and I welcome X’s agreement to suspend processing while the DPC, working in conjunction with our EU/EEA peer regulators, continue to examine the extent to which the processing complies with the GDPR.
X’s statement does not make any change or suspension clear, though:
In a statement, X’s global affairs team said: “We are pleased that people using X in the EU can continue to use Grok and control how their data is used with a simple privacy setting.
“We will continue to work with the DPC about Grok and other AI matters as we have been doing since last year.”
So how exactly is this voluntary suspension being implemented?