{"id":70825,"date":"2026-06-11T19:49:43","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:49:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/70825\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T19:49:43","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T19:49:43","slug":"grok-ai-chatbot-violated-canadian-privacy-law-watchdog-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/70825\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok AI chatbot violated Canadian privacy law, watchdog says"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The federal privacy commissioner says Grok was being used to generate millions of sexualized deepfakes.LIONEL BONAVENTURE\/AFP\/Getty Images<\/p>\n

Sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI chatbot and shared on his X platform violated Canada\u2019s privacy law and while the company has made some changes they don\u2019t go far enough, the privacy commissioner said Thursday.<\/p>\n

Philippe Dufresne said Grok\u2019s AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn\u2019t properly consider harms to privacy.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis lack of protection allowed users to create and share sexualized deepfakes, largely targeting women and children. According to researchers, Grok was at one point generating well over 6,000 sexualized images per hour,\u201d Dufresne said.<\/p>\n

The commissioner launched the investigation into Grok in January. It looked at whether the companies involved are complying with privacy law and whether they obtained \u201cvalid consent\u201d to collect, use and disclose personal information to create deepfakes, including explicit content.<\/p>\n

The investigation found both xAI, the company behind Grok, and X Corp., the company behind the social media platform X, violated Canada\u2019s federal private sector privacy law. Both companies are owned by Musk\u2019s SpaceX.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of the recommendations that we made was that they suspend the tool until they can put in place all of the appropriate safeguards. So press pause, fix the issue given the harms, and that gives an incentive to fix the issues quickly,\u201d Dufresne said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThey\u2019ve not accepted to do this and I can\u2019t force them to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said that while the company was collaborative and did take some measures in response, it remains in non-compliance.<\/p>\n

Dufresne said the case shows the need to update Canada\u2019s privacy law to give his office the power to issue fines and make binding orders.<\/p>\n

Artificial Intelligence Minister Evan Solomon has said he will introduce that updated privacy law. It\u2019s not clear whether that will happen before the House of Commons rises for the summer.<\/p>\n

The Liberal government has tried twice to update the private sector privacy law. Neither bill became law.<\/p>\n

Canada was among a number of countries to launch investigations into the sexualized deepfakes, alongside the U.K., the European Union and California.<\/p>\n

\u201cArtificial intelligence and other emerging technologies are fuelled by the mass collection and use of data, including personal information,\u201d Dufresne said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Open this photo in gallery: The federal privacy commissioner says Grok was being used to generate millions of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":70826,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1262,1249,1263,1242,1240,1264,1261,1239,1255,1256,1252,1241,1238,980,76,88,1254,1248,1275,1243,1244,597,6364,1250,1251,774,1265,1247,1270,1271,1273,1268,1272,1266,1269,1245,1258,1259,464,1257,1267,915,134,1260,1253,465,1246,2899,1274],"class_list":["post-70825","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-xai","tag-alberta","tag-arts-news","tag-bc","tag-breaking-news","tag-breaking-news-video","tag-british-columbia","tag-canada","tag-canada-news","tag-canada-sports","tag-canada-sports-news","tag-canada-trafficcanada-weather","tag-canadian-breaking-news","tag-canadian-news","tag-economy","tag-education","tag-environment","tag-federal-government","tag-foreign-news","tag-globe-and-mail","tag-globe-and-mail-breaking-news","tag-globe-and-mail-canada-news","tag-government","tag-grok","tag-life-news","tag-lifestyle","tag-local-news","tag-manitoba","tag-national-news","tag-new-brunswick","tag-newfoundland-and-labrador","tag-northwest-territories","tag-nova-scotia","tag-nunavut","tag-ontario","tag-pei","tag-photos","tag-political-news","tag-political-opinion","tag-politics","tag-politics-news","tag-quebec","tag-sports-news","tag-technology","tag-travel","tag-trudeau","tag-us-news","tag-world-news","tag-xai","tag-yukon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70825","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=70825"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70825\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/70826"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70825"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70825"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ai\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70825"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}