Overview
- Ireland’s Data Protection Commission notified X on Monday that it has launched a broad investigation into the platform’s GDPR compliance tied to Grok-generated imagery.
- Officials say the case centers on potentially harmful intimate or sexualized images posted on X that involve Europeans’ personal data, including children.
- Because X’s European base is in Dublin, the Irish regulator leads EU privacy enforcement for the company, with possible substantial fines if breaches are confirmed.
- News reports indicate thousands of sexualized deepfakes were produced via Grok last month, primarily of women and also of children.
- X has restricted Grok’s ability to generate explicit images and denies wrongdoing as French prosecutors search its Paris offices, UK authorities pursue formal probes, and Spain’s prime minister asks prosecutors to examine X, TikTok and Meta.