Latest
  1. Johns Hopkins Bayview tells 3,182 patients an employee put their health data into a public AI tool
  2. China’s AI compute access expected to double in 2027, with US-designed chips about 65 per cent
  3. UK commits £100m to national AI Biosecurity Lab
  4. Moonshot AI releases Kimi K3.1 Pro with 1-million-token context window
  5. Residents in Newport and Cardiff oppose hyperscale datacentres near homes
  6. Study: Grok 4.7 picked Republicans in 92% of forced midterm answers, GPT-6.1 Sol picked Democrats in 97%
  7. Attackers exploiting the PHP flaws hand the break-in to AI agents, Unit 42 says
  8. Elvis Presley’s rightsholders sue Anthropic over training on 274 songs

Latest / Frontier models and safety

Enforcement or court caseFrontierMediaItaly EUConfirmed

Italy’s data protection authority orders OpenAI to stop processing Italian users’ data

See how this story connects

Source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali: press release of 31 March 2023Also reported by Garante: ChatGPT available again in Italy (28 April 2023)

Italy’s Garante per la protezione dei dati personali ordered OpenAI on 30 March 2023, announced on 31 March, to stop processing Italian users’ personal data with immediate effect, and opened an inquiry into ChatGPT. It cited no legal basis for mass collection of personal data to train the models, no information notice to users, inaccurate outputs about people and no age check for users under 13. OpenAI restored access in Italy on 28 April after adding a privacy notice, an opt-out from training for Europeans and age confirmation at sign-up.

Why it matters

Every developer offering a chatbot in the EU learned that GDPR regulators could halt a service over training data and age checks, and OpenAI changed its privacy controls across Europe in response.

When
31 Mar 2023
ID
WTA-N-2023-0024
Who
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, OpenAI
Authority
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali
Target
OpenAI
Action
processing stop order
Status
lifted April 2023 · Enforcement ledger

Summary by wheresthe.ai, from Garante per la protezione dei dati personali and the reporting credited above. Checked against the source on 9 Oct 2026.

Read the original at Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Source copy: download the page as saved on 18 Oct 2026 (PDF). Also held by the Internet Archive.

Next stop on this Storyline: Led toItaly’s data protection authority fines OpenAI €15m over ChatGPT

Cite this story

WTA-N-2023-0024: “Italy’s data protection authority orders OpenAI to stop processing Italian users’ data.” wheresthe.ai, 31 Mar 2023. https://wheresthe.ai/d/it-garante-chatgpt-temporary-limitation-2023-03/ (source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali: press release of 31 March 2023).

Spotted an error? Email [email protected].