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ChatGPT Reportedly Banned by Italian Authority Due to OpenAI's Purported Lack of Legal Basis for Data Collection and Age Verification
- Occurred
- Mar 31, 2023
- Published
- Apr 12, 2023
- Source
- AI Incident Database
Summary
Italy's data protection authority is reported to have temporarily limited OpenAI's processing of Italian users' data after alleging that ChatGPT lacked adequate notice and legal basis for large-scale personal data collection and processing used to train the system. The authority also cited a March 2023 data breach, possible processing of inaccurate personal data, and the absence of age-verification safeguards for children.
Developers
- OpenAI
- Large language model developers
- Chatbot developers
Deployers
- OpenAI
Harmed parties
- Privacy
- Minors
- General public of Italy
- General public
- Minors in Italy
Tags
- response
Classification
Category confidence: 95%
Severity confidence: 90%
Rationale: Italian authority banned ChatGPT due to unauthorized data collection and lack of age verification, constituting a significant regulatory action.
Classifier: Qwen/Qwen3.5-35B-A3B-FP8