[timdaub]

Yes, you are right. I'm blending the issues here. But see, I'm a EU citizen living in Berlin and naturally I've come to Milan for work and vacation, expecting to use ChatGPT. And frankly, I find it unacceptable that the Italian Garante took the initiative here and outright banned it.

POLITICO reports:

> 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 intelligence tool, from processing the data of Italian users. The order is temporary until the company respects the EU's landmark privacy law, the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

https://www.politico.eu/article/italian-privacy-regulator-ba...

[jaclaz]

The authority has all the reasons (+1) to do that.

In what is probably the first time in recorded history, Italy was simply faster than other national authorities.

Here is the official take on the matter:

https://www.garanteprivacy.it/home/docweb/-/docweb-display/d...

And the EU has just promoted a specific task force to coordinate the various national agencies on the matter:

https://edpb.europa.eu/news/news/2023/edpb-resolves-dispute-...

And - unless openAI/ChatGPT - complies, it is not improbable that France, Ireland and Germany will impose similar limitations:

https://www.reuters.com/technology/germany-principle-could-b...