The Italian Authority for Personal Data Protection reported today that the US company OpenAI, which operates ChatGPT, announced in a statement new measures to respect the privacy of Internet users.

After the data was leaked, the Italian data protection authority opened an investigation and, in accordance with European law, ordered the “immediate” blocking of GPT chat in Italy, on the last day of March.

A measure that will remain as long as ChatGPT “does not respect the privacy regime”. On April 12, Italy’s data protection authority sent OpenAI a series of recommendations.

By blocking it, the Italian organization regretted that this chat, the most famous in the emerging field of artificial intelligence, capable of simulating human conversations, suffered the loss of data from its users and the payment data of its subscribers on March 20.

In its ruling, the Italian authority highlighted the “lack of information for users and all interested parties from whom OpenAI collects data” but “above all the lack of a legal basis justifying the massive collection and preservation of personal data”.

Furthermore, he said, the information generated by ChatGPT “doesn’t always correspond” to reality.