{"id":21835,"date":"2026-02-03T13:37:18","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes\/"},"modified":"2026-02-03T13:37:18","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T12:37:18","slug":"uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Information Commissioner\u2019s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law<\/p>\n<p>The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law after the Grok AI tool was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.<\/p>\n<p>The ICO said the reports raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d under UK data protection laws, such as whether \u201cappropriate safeguards were built into Grok\u2019s design and deployment\u201d.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/technology\/2026\/feb\/03\/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\n<img src=\"https:\/\/i.guim.co.uk\/img\/media\/75ffe50089c9cc8b35117b441cd8fcd280dd74a9\/388_0_3926_3140\/master\/3926.jpg?width=140&amp;quality=85&amp;auto=format&amp;fit=max&amp;s=5d37ad4ca432d09cf61ac1fc4004a567\" title=\"UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes\" \/>Information Commissioner\u2019s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law<br \/>\nThe Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law after the Grok AI tool was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent.<br \/>\nThe ICO said the reports raised \u201cserious concerns\u201d under UK data protection laws, such as whether \u201cappropriate safeguards were built into Grok\u2019s design and deployment\u201d. Continue reading&#8230;Technology | The Guardian<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Information Commissioner\u2019s Office to investigate whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law The Information Commissioner\u2019s Office (ICO) has opened formal investigations into X and xAI over whether Elon Musk\u2019s companies have complied with data protection law after the Grok AI tool was used to generate sexual deepfake images without consent. The ICO &hellip;<\/p>\n<p class=\"read-more\"> <a class=\"\" href=\"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/2026\/02\/03\/uk-privacy-watchdog-opens-inquiry-into-x-over-grok-ai-sexual-deepfakes\/\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">UK privacy watchdog opens inquiry into X over Grok AI sexual deepfakes<\/span> Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":21836,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21835"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21835\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21836"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21835"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21835"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/costops.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21835"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}