Google announced it would roll out its AI chatbot, Bard, in the EU after delays due to questions about its compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
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On July 13, 2023, Google announced it would roll out its AI chatbot, Bard, in the EU after delays due to questions about its compliance with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). A spokesperson for the Irish Data Protection Commission (DPC), the main EU data regulator for Google, stated that “Google [] made a number of changes in advance of launch, in particular increased transparency and changes to controls for users.” Under the changes, users will now be able to know how their data is used, to opt out of certain usages and to control whether their conversations with Bard will be saved or deleted by Google. The regulator also noted that Google agreed to “carry[] out a review and provid[e] a report to the DPC after three months of Bard becoming operational in the EU.”
