It’s not surprising that ChatGPT has been accused of breaching the EU’s main privacy law – PIA blog noted that ChatGPT was a privacy disaster waiting to happen back in February. As the first complaint to be taken up by an EU data protection agency, this case will be watched closely by other EU Member States, and around the world. The Polish inquiry is likely to investigate many of the key GDPR issues that arise for AI programs and be used as a benchmark in future legal cases.
All these laws seem inconsistently enforced and extremely vague. Imagine every website having to respond to a dozen investigations from countries around the world. Nothing would ever improve.
Things would only get worse for user privacy if nothing is done and we let tech companies do whatever they want whenever they want.