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Italy’s data protection authority fines OpenAI €15m over ChatGPT
See how this story connectsItaly’s Garante closed its ChatGPT investigation with a €15 million fine on OpenAI and ordered a six-month information campaign on radio, TV, newspapers and the internet about how ChatGPT collects personal data for training. It found an unreported March 2023 data breach, training on personal data without an adequate legal basis, transparency failures and no age verification for children under 13. On 18 March 2026 the Court of Rome upheld OpenAI’s appeal against the decision (judgment 4153/2026), and the Garante took the decision off its website.
Why it matters
OpenAI was ordered to run the first public information campaign under Article 166(7) of Italy’s Privacy Code, but the Court of Rome overturned the decision in March 2026.
- When
- 20 Dec 2024
- ID
WTA-N-2024-0214- Where
- Italy, European Union
- Who
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, OpenAI
- Topics
- Privacy, Children and teens, Frontier models
- Authority
- Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
- Target
- OpenAI
- Action
- fine; information campaign ordered; €15m (imposed)
- Status
- annulled March 2026 · Enforcement ledger
Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Garante per la protezione dei dati personali. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.
Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.
Cite this story
WTA-N-2024-0214: “Italy’s data protection authority fines OpenAI €15m over ChatGPT.” wheresthe.ai, 20 Dec 2024. https://wheresthe.ai/d/it-garante-openai-15m-fine-2024-12/ (source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali).
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