Spain investigated whether the company turn on AIcreator ChatGPT, violates European laws privacy. This Spanish Data Protection Agency (AEPD) launched “preliminary investigative actions” this Thursday, a move that comes two weeks after the Italian regulator chose to block access to this popular chatbot with “immediate effect”. artificial intelligence (Get).

As EL PERIÓDICO DE CATALUNYA from the Prensa Ibérica group moved forward last week, the AEPD asked their European counterparts to include the following discussion: arrangement At ChatGPT’s General Meeting of the European Data Protection Committee this Thursday. After this meeting, regulatory bodies European Union The (EU) agreed to set up a joint working group to promote European cooperation and to “exchange information on possible coercive measures” that member states could take in the coming weeks.

European coordination

tech giants like Aim (owner Facebook And instagram) anyone Amazon They have their European operations base in Ireland, which means that country’s regulator is responsible for determining the enforcement of community laws. Ireland decides and other countries do the same.

This is not the case with OpenAI, which is not EU-based and opens the door for each country’s regulator to have the authority to act on its own, as Italy did. However, this can lead to an inequality of criteria that causes confusion between countries. The formation of the working group will serve to “harmonize” the subsequent decisions put into practice in agreement with the other parties.

lockdown in italy

This Wednesday, the Italian regulator has set April 30 as the deadline for OpenAI to meet its demands, including more transparency regarding the handling of user data.

On March 31, the agency blocked access to ChatGPT due to “the absence of a legal basis to justify the collection and bulk storage of personal data”. General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), pioneering European privacy law privacy.

OpenAI will have until May 31 to submit an action plan to verify the age of users excluding those under 13. If the US company does not comply with these requirements, the authorities will restrict access to the chatbot.