Tech Regulation

The Grok Liability Gap

Legal laundering, supply chain heists, and the 1996 shield protecting 2026 superintelligence.

Aman TiwariMar 8, 20264 min0 sources

X took the data. In 2024, European regulators confirmed the platform harvested private posts from EU citizens to train Grok. They did it without permission.

Consent was non-existent. The Irish Data Protection Commission eventually moved to close the file, but the outcome was far from a total victory for privacy advocates.