Several governments seek to block ChatGPT’s personal info use

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Regulators in Canada and Italy have already started processes to stop the AI from using personal information. OpenAI’s chatbot, ChatGPT scrapes the open web to help to train it, leading regulators in a growing number of countries to dig in against these actions in order to protect the personal information of their citizens. Italy’s data protection agency has temporarily banned the chatbot while it launches an OpenAI probe. These governments – and several experts in the field – are saying that greater oversight is required over the type of data…

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Italy bans facial recognition technology with one exception

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The European country has prohibited the use of the tech and of “smart glasses” except for crime fighting. Italy has issued a ban on the use of both facial recognition technology and of “smart glasses” in the country, though there is a major exception to this newly created rule. The country’s Data Protection Agency recently scolded the use of the tech by two municipalities. Italy’s Data Protection Agency criticized two of the country’s municipalities earlier this week for experimenting with facial recognition and smart glasses technologies. This referred specifically to…

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