Brussels, 12/09/2024 (Agence Europe) – On Thursday 12 September, the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC) announced that it had opened an investigation against Google for a possible breach of the data protection regulation (GDPR).
This investigation concerns the use of European users’ personal data to develop one of its artificial intelligence models.In its press release, the DPC states that it is seeking to find out “whether Google has complied with any obligations it may have had” to carry out “an impact assessment” to ensure the protection of “the fundamental rights and freedoms of individuals”, writes the Irish Commission in a press release.
The DPC is addressing the AI model known as ‘Pathways Language Model 2 (PaLM 2)’, launched in 2023 by the American company.
It is the fourth platform to be asked by the EU to stop using the personal data of its European users to train its AI models. A week ago, X announced that it was definitively withdrawing from exploiting this data, following legal action by the DPC (see EUROPE 13475/13).
A few months earlier, Meta and Apple also promised not to use this type of data for their AI (see EUROPE 13439/17, 13433/12).
On 4 September, the DPC sent a request for an opinion to the European Data Protection Board (EDPB) in order to “stimulate discussion and facilitate agreement, at EDPB level, on some of the fundamental issues that arise in the context of processing to develop and train an AI model in order to provide the necessary clarity in this complex area”. (Original version in French by Isalia Stieffatre)