Italy’s data privacy regulator has banned ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations relating to the chatbot’s collection and storage of personal data. With immediate effect, the Guarantor for the protection of personal data has ordered the temporary limitation of the processing of data of Italian users by ChatGPT parent firm OpenAI until it complies with EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) privacy laws. It has also launched an investigation into ChatGPT, the Guarantor said. The ban comes in the wake of an open letter in which Twitter owner Elon Musk and a group AI industry executives called for a six-month pause in developing systems more powerful than OpenAI’s newly launched GPT-4, citing potential risks to society.
To read this article in full, please click here
More Stories
Quishing Attacks Jump Tenfold, Attachment Payloads Halve
The figures come from Egress’s latest report, which also suggests secure email gateways lag behind tech advancements Read More
Russia’s Sandworm Upgraded to APT44 by Google’s Mandiant
Mandiant has confirmed that Sandworm is responsible for many cyber-attacks against Ukraine has close ties with a Russian hacktivist group...
New Cyber-Threat MadMxShell Exploits Typosquatting and Google Ads
Zscaler also confirmed MadMxShell uses DLL sideloading and DNS tunneling for C2 communication Read More
Change Healthcare data for sale on dark web as fallout from ransomware attack spirals out of control
February's crippling ransomware attack against Change Healthcare, which saw prescription orders delayed across the United States, continues to have serious...
3.5 million Omni Hotel guest details held to ransom by Daixin Team
The international hotel chain Omni Hotels & Resorts has confirmed that a cyber attack last month saw it shut down...
Police smash LabHost international fraud network, 37 arrested
Police have successfully infiltrated and disrupted the fraud platform "LabHost", used by more than 2,000 criminals to defraud victims worldwide....