Italian court scraps 15-million-euro privacy watchdog fine on ChatGPT-maker OpenAI

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Thu, March 19, 2026 astatine 7:59 AM CDT 1 min read

ROME, March 19 (Reuters) - A Rome tribunal has cancelled a 15‑million‑euro ($17 ‌million) good that Italy's information ‌protection authorization imposed connected ChatGPT shaper OpenAI, a ​ruling showed connected Thursday.

* The tribunal did not instantly merchandise an mentation forits ruling. * "We invited the determination by ‌the Court ⁠of Rome. We’vealways been committed to respecting idiosyncratic privateness and ⁠lookforward to helping much Italian people, businesses and societybenefit from AI," OpenAI ​said successful ​a statement. * ​The information extortion ‌authority, known arsenic Garante, declinedto comment. * The good was issued successful December 2024 implicit the allegedunlawful usage of idiosyncratic information by the generative AI ‌application. * At the time, ​OpenAI said the determination ​was"disproportionate" and ​said it would appeal. * ‌In March 2025 the ​Rome tribunal ​had temporarily suspended thefine, pending a ruling connected the merits of ​the case.

($1 = ‌0.8718 euros)

(Reporting by Francesca Piscioneri and ​Elvira Pollina. Editing by Alvise Armellini ​and Mark Potter)

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