Austria’s NOYB Files Privacy Complaint Against OpenAI’s ChatGPT
OpenAI is in the eyes of the storm in Europe, as Austrian advocate NOYB (None Of Your Business) had on April 29 accused the AI firm of violating data privacy rules due to inaccurate responses that cannot be corrected.
NOYB’s complaint came on the heels of a data subject who queried ChatGPT about his date of birth but received incorrect responses, instead of being informed by the chatbot that it lacked the necessary data, which is a violation of data privacy in the EU. The subject’s name was redacted in the complaint, but NOYB revealed that the individual is a public figure and their date of birth is readily available online.
The Austrian privacy advocate group also stated that OpenAI’s chatbot denied the complainant’s requests to correct or delete the false response. ChatGPT told the subject that data correction was impossible on the app without clarifying how the data was processed or its sources, further violating the complainant’s privacy rights, which looks less than ideal in light of the EU privacy law.
