Elon Musk’s X targeted with nine privacy complaints after grabbing EU users’ data for training Grok

X, the social media platform owned by Elon Musk, has been targeted with a series of privacy complaints after it helped itself to the data of users in the European Union for training AI models without asking people’s consent.

Late last month an eagle-eyed social media user spotted a setting indicating that X had quietly begun processing the post data of regional users to train its Grok AI chatbot. The revelation led to an expression of “surprise” from the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the watchdog that leads on oversight of X’s compliance with the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).