{"id":29664,"date":"2026-05-06T15:54:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/29664\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T15:54:14","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T15:54:14","slug":"openai-did-not-respect-canadian-privacy-laws-with-chatgpt-probe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/29664\/","title":{"rendered":"OpenAI did not respect Canadian privacy laws with ChatGPT: probe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Updated:\u00a0May 06, 2026 at 11:51AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"b-date-custom__date-item\">Published:\u00a0May 06, 2026 at 5:42AM EDT<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">OTTAWA &#8212; Federal and provincial privacy watchdogs say OpenAI failed to respect Canadian privacy laws when training its artificial intelligence-powered ChatGPT chatbot.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The conclusions are contained in a report presented today following a joint investigation by federal privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne and his counterparts from British Columbia, Alberta and Quebec.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">They found OpenAI\u2019s collection of information to train its models was overly broad, resulting in the compilation and use of sensitive personal details.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The regulators say this could include sensitive data such as individuals\u2019 health conditions and political views, as well as information about children.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The probe found OpenAI did not clearly explain that personal information collected from publicly accessible sources could include data from social media, discussion forums and other similar websites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">The privacy watchdogs also say OpenAI provided inadequate notifications about potential inaccuracies in ChatGPT responses.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">By Jim Bronskill and Anja Karadeglija<\/p>\n<p class=\"c-paragraph\">This report by The Canadian Press was first published May 6, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Updated:\u00a0May 06, 2026 at 11:51AM EDT Published:\u00a0May 06, 2026 at 5:42AM EDT OTTAWA &#8212; Federal and provincial privacy&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":29665,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[580,2489,157,464,160],"class_list":{"0":"post-29664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-openai","8":"tag-chatgpt","9":"tag-national","10":"tag-openai","11":"tag-politics","12":"tag-science"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29664\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29665"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}