Canadian Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne will review whether the X platform is complying with Canadian data protection law, Canadian media reported on Wednesday.
The commissioner was contacted this week by New Democratic Party MP Brian Masse, asking to verify whether Canadians' private data is not at risk in the process of training the AI model built by the X platform. Dufresne responded in a letter that an official has already been assigned to the case to lead the investigation, The Canadian Press reported.
X uses the platform posts to train its AI model. You can refuse to share the posts, but you should know that to do so, you need to go into the settings and block two options regarding X's use of both the posts and interactions with other X participants.
In September 2024, the federal Court of Appeal ordered another social media company, Facebook, to submit to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner how Facebook will protect Canadians’ personal information and how it will obtain informed consent for the use of that information. Earlier, that office’s investigation found that Facebook had failed to provide adequate protections.
The Canadian parliament's website has been collecting signatures for a petition to strip X's owner, Elon Musk, of Canadian citizenship, which he has because his mother was born in Regina, Canada. As of Wednesday evening, the petition had over 312,500 signatures.
From Toronto Anna Lach (PAP)
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