ChatGPT reactivated in Italy after addressing privacy concerns

After addressing concerns raised by Garante, OpenAI has reactivated ChatGPT in Italy, which had been temporarily banned last month due to potential privacy rule breaches. Garante accused OpenAI of collecting personal data without legal justification and failing to verify the age of users. OpenAI responded by offering a tool for age verification, enhancing its privacy policy and opt-out form, and creating a new form for EU users to object to personal data usage. Garante acknowledged OpenAI's steps towards compliance with data protection regulations and will continue to investigate ChatGPT, in collaboration with a special task force set up by the European Data Protection Board. ChatGPT's development has attracted the attention of regulators and lawmakers in multiple countries, and a committee of EU lawmakers has agreed on new regulations to require companies using generative AI tools, such as ChatGPT, to disclose copyrighted material used in system development. Italy was the first Western European country to restrict ChatGPT.