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Italy’s data protection authority fines OpenAI €15m over ChatGPT

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Source: Garante per la protezione dei dati personali

Italy’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
Who
Garante per la protezione dei dati personali, OpenAI
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.

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: PromptedRome court upholds OpenAI’s appeal against the Garante’s €15m ChatGPT decision

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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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