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Poland Opens GDPR Investigation into ChatGPT and OpenAI amid Mounting Privacy Concerns (www.privateinternetaccess.com)

submitted 1 year ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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It’s not surprising that ChatGPT has been accused of breaching the EU’s main privacy law – PIA blog noted that ChatGPT was a privacy disaster waiting to happen back in February. As the first complaint to be taken up by an EU data protection agency, this case will be watched closely by other EU Member States, and around the world. The Polish inquiry is likely to investigate many of the key GDPR issues that arise for AI programs and be used as a benchmark in future legal cases.

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[–] [email protected] 20 points 1 year ago

Good news

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

OMG Poland

[+] [email protected] -8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

What happens when countries start looking at Lemmy? This place doesn't really do anything to adhere to GDPR laws.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Lemmy instances do not by default collect any data protected under GDPR.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Your username would fall under GDPR as personally identifiable information - also if your instance asks for an email address, that is also personally identifiable information under GDPR.

I think any posts that users can contribute to a social network, also fall under GDPR.

This is a potential issue that many instance owners may not have realised.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Even if it is, this data is not processed in a way that would violate the law, unless the hosting party is doing something shady. It would be an incredible stretch to consider that a website only asking for a username to attach to a user somehow violates GDPR.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Well for one thing a user is prevented from deleting their account when banned. I'm pretty sure this can be considered a violation of the law.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

Email works the same way. Once your data is received by the other party, you cannot delete it.

Public mailing lists have a very similar behaviour to the fediverse's. I am not aware of any credible GDPR cases against those, although it may happen down the line, we'll see.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Thats a good point. An instance could comply if there remains a way to submit a remove my data form to the admins. But other instances may also have or retain data with Lemmy being a decentralized network, our data is all over the place, there is no easy way to really be forgotten on the fediverse and neither a way for law enforcement to fine every single instance.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

But you are giving explicit consent to store that information by way of submitting it

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

They store user posts, and those can say anything.