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Globe/CP say Apple hears AI chatbot broke privacy laws

2026-06-12 05:04 ET - In the News

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The Globe and Mail reports in its Friday, June 12, edition that sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk's Grok artificial intelligence chatbot and shared on his X platform violated Canada's privacy law -- and while the company has made some changes, they don't go far enough, Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne said Thursday. A Canadian Press dispatch to The Globe reports that Mr. Dufresne said Grok's AI image-generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn't properly consider harms to privacy. The investigation into Grok, launched by the commissioner in January, assessed compliance with privacy laws regarding the consent for collecting personal information to create deepfakes. It found that both xAI, the company behind Grok, and X Corp., which operates the social-media platform X, violated Canada's federal private-sector privacy law. Both companies are owned by Mr. Musk's SpaceX. "One of the recommendations that we made was that they suspend the tool until they can put in place all of the appropriate safeguards. So press pause, fix the issue given the harms, and that gives an incentive to fix the issues quickly," Mr. Dufresne said. "They've not accepted to do this and I can't force them to do it."

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