Poland investigates ChatGPT for alleged privacy abuse
Occurred: September 2023
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Poland's data protection authority the Urząd Ochrony Danych Osobowych (UODO) announced it is opening an investigation into OpenAI's ChatGPT for violating the privacy of Polish users.
The announcement comes after a complaint had accused OpenAI and ChatGPT of multiple breaches of the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), including processing 'data in an unlawful and unreliable manner' and in a non-transparent manner.
According to TechCrunch, the complaint was filed by local privacy and security researcher Lukasz Olejnik and accused OpenAI of a string of breaches concerning lawful basis, transparency, fairness, data access rights, and privacy by design.
According to Olejnik, OpenAI had said it was unable to correct incorrect personal data about him, and had failed to respond properly to his subject access request, giving 'evasive, misleading and internally contradictory' answers when he had sought to exercise his legal rights to data access.
Databank
Operator: OpenAI
Developer: OpenAI
Country: Poland
Sector: Multiple
Purpose: Generate text
Technology: Chatbot; NLP/text analysis; Neural network; Deep learning; Machine learning
Issue: Privacy
Transparency: Governance
System
Legal, regulatory
Investigations, assessments, audits
UODO (2023). Technologia musi być zgodna z RODO
News, commentary, analysis
https://techcrunch.com/2023/09/21/poland-chatgpt-gdpr-complaint-probe/
https://www.dataguidance.com/news/poland-uodo-launches-investigation-chatgpt-unlawful
https://www.reuters.com/technology/poland-investigates-openai-over-privacy-concerns-2023-09-21/
https://thenextweb.com/news/poland-investigates-chatgpt-data-privacy-breach
https://www.cpomagazine.com/data-protection/another-eu-investigation-for-chatgpt-following-poland-gdpr-complaint/
https://www.cryptopolitan.com/poland-investigate-chatgpt-over-data-privacy/
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Type: Incident
Published: November 2023