Summary: Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns

“Google recently informed the Data Protection Commission of its intention to launch Bard in the EU this week,” said Deputy Commissioner Graham Doyle.

Amid an AI race, Google has since March rolled out its competitor to OpenAI’s ChatGPT and Microsoft’s Bing Chat to 180 countries | Kirill Kudryavtsev/AFP via Getty Images

Google will have to postpone starting its artificial intelligence chatbot Bard in the European Union after its main data regulator in the bloc raised privacy concerns.

The Irish regulator said it asked and is waiting for the company to provide a detailed assessment and answer additional questions about how Bard complies with EU’s data protection rules “as a matter of urgency.”

But the tech company has so far stayed away from EU countries, where powerful privacy regulators have previously targeted generative-AI sensation ChatGPT for allegedly mishandling people’s data and lacking a legal basis for its algorithm under the GDPR.

The Dublin-based authority is Google’s main European data supervisor under the bloc’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

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Google forced to postpone Bard chatbot’s EU launch over privacy concerns

The Irish privacy watchdog said the tech giant has given insufficient information about how it will respect the EU’s data privacy rules.

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