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Incident 513: ChatGPT Banned by Italian Authority Due to OpenAI's Lack of Legal Basis for Data Collection and Age Verification

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Description: The Italian Data Protection Authority alleged OpenAI lacked a justifiable legal basis for personal data collection and processing which facilitate training of ChatGPT, and lacked age-verification mechanism preventing exposure of the chatbot's inappropriate answers to children, prompting its ban.

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Alleged: OpenAI developed and deployed an AI system, which harmed Italian minors and Italian children.

Incident Stats

Incident ID
513
Report Count
5
Incident Date
2023-03-31
Editors
Khoa Lam, Daniel Atherton
Applied Taxonomies
MIT

MIT Taxonomy Classifications

Machine-Classified
Taxonomy Details

Risk Subdomain

A further 23 subdomains create an accessible and understandable classification of hazards and harms associated with AI
 

2.1. Compromise of privacy by obtaining, leaking or correctly inferring sensitive information

Risk Domain

The Domain Taxonomy of AI Risks classifies risks into seven AI risk domains: (1) Discrimination & toxicity, (2) Privacy & security, (3) Misinformation, (4) Malicious actors & misuse, (5) Human-computer interaction, (6) Socioeconomic & environmental harms, and (7) AI system safety, failures & limitations.
 
  1. Privacy & Security

Entity

Which, if any, entity is presented as the main cause of the risk
 

AI

Timing

The stage in the AI lifecycle at which the risk is presented as occurring
 

Post-deployment

Intent

Whether the risk is presented as occurring as an expected or unexpected outcome from pursuing a goal
 

Unintentional

Incident Reports

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Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
ChatGPT could return to Italy if OpenAI complies with rulesOpenAI rolls out 'incognito mode' on ChatGPTOpenAI Privacy Policy - ResponseItaly restores ChatGPT after OpenAI responds to regulator
Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT

politico.eu

ChatGPT could return to Italy if OpenAI complies with rules

ChatGPT could return to Italy if OpenAI complies with rules

apnews.com

OpenAI rolls out 'incognito mode' on ChatGPT

OpenAI rolls out 'incognito mode' on ChatGPT

reuters.com

OpenAI Privacy Policy

OpenAI Privacy Policy

openai.com

Italy restores ChatGPT after OpenAI responds to regulator

Italy restores ChatGPT after OpenAI responds to regulator

reuters.com

Italian privacy regulator bans ChatGPT
politico.eu · 2023

The Italian privacy regulator Friday ordered a ban on ChatGPT over alleged privacy violations.

The national data protection authority said it will immediately block and investigate OpenAI, the U.S. company behind the popular artificial inte…

ChatGPT could return to Italy if OpenAI complies with rules
apnews.com · 2023

ROME (AP) — ChatGPT could return to Italy soon if its maker, OpenAI, complies with measures to satisfy regulators who had imposed a temporary ban on the artificial intelligence software over privacy worries.

The Italian data protection auth…

OpenAI rolls out 'incognito mode' on ChatGPT
reuters.com · 2023

April 25 (Reuters) - OpenAI is introducing what one employee called an "incognito mode" for its hit chatbot ChatGPT that does not save users’ conversation history or use it to improve its artificial intelligence, the company said Tuesday.

T…

OpenAI Privacy Policy
openai.com · 2023
OpenAI post-incident response

We at OpenAI OpCo, LLC (together with our affiliates, “OpenAI”, “we”, “our” or “us”) respect your privacy and are strongly committed to keeping secure any information we obtain from you or about you. This Privacy Policy describes our practi…

Italy restores ChatGPT after OpenAI responds to regulator
reuters.com · 2023

April 28 (Reuters) - The ChatGPT chatbot was reactivated in Italy after its maker OpenAI addressed issues raised by Italy's data protection authority, the agency and the company confirmed on Friday.

Microsoft Corp (MSFT.O)-backed OpenAI too…

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