- Chief Compliance Officer and VP of Legal Affairs, Arrow Electronics
By 
Kyle Brasseur2023-04-28T19:08:00
ChatGPT restored access for Italian users Friday after changes to its privacy controls were welcomed by the country’s data protection authority (DPA).
The Italian DPA, Garante, ordered OpenAI, the U.S.-based developer of ChatGPT, to stop processing the data of the country’s citizens in March after determining the platform violated European Union privacy laws and had no controls to stop it interacting inappropriately with young children. The decision increased scrutiny of OpenAI and generative artificial intelligence across the bloc, leading DPAs in France, Spain, Germany, and other countries to consider taking similar action.
OpenAI responded by enhancing the way users control their data on the platform, including:
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