Italy Temporarily Bans ChatGPT; Threatens OpenAI with €20 Million Fine

The Italian Data Protection Authority (DPA) has decided that OpenAI’s ChatGPT
services cannot operate in Italy due to security concerns.

One of the problems with ChatGPT, as enumerated by the DPA, is that users don’t
know how the information they provide to the service is actually used by the
company. While people are told that their data will be used, the actual process
is not transparent.

“No information is provided to users and data subjects whose data are collected
by Open AI; more importa