Canada: Office of the Privacy Commissioner found X in breach of Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act consent and appropriateness requirements in relation to the generation of sexualised deepfakes
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Office of the Privacy Commissioner found X in breach of Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act consent and appropriateness requirements in relation to the generation of sexualised deepfakes
On 11 June 2026, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada (OPC) found that X Corp., the operator of the social media platform X, and X.AI LLC (xAI), the developer of the generative AI chatbot Grok, breached the Personal Information Protectio…
Scope
Policy Area
Data governance
Policy Instrument
Data protection regulation
Regulated Economic Activity
platform intermediary: user-generated content
Implementation Level
national
Government Branch
executive
Government Body
data protection authority
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2025-02-27
under deliberation
2026-01-15
under deliberation