Privacy vs. Innovation: Italy blocks OpenAI's ChatGPT over data concerns!

Italy's data protection watchdog has banned OpenAI's ChatGPT chatbot due to alleged privacy violations. The Italian National Authority for Personal Data Protection has claimed that ChatGPT had a data breach on March 20, compromising users' conversations and payment information of subscribers to the paid service. The decision will result in the temporary limitation of the processing of Italian users' data in relation to OpenAI. The watchdog criticised ChatGPT for not providing an information notice to users whose data is collected by OpenAI and the lack of a legal basis for the collection and mass storage of personal data.