{"id":269946,"date":"2026-06-11T04:09:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T04:15:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T08:15:09","slug":"privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Privacy commissioner to release results of Grok deepfake investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/\">Privacy commissioner to release results of Grok deepfake investigation<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/\">https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 04:09:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"halifax.citynews.ca\">halifax.citynews.ca<\/a><\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA \u2014 The federal privacy commissioner will today release the results of his investigation of sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk\u2019s Grok AI chatbot.<\/p>\n<p>Philippe Dufresne launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.<\/p>\n<p>He said at the time the non-consensual use of personal information to create deepfakes, including intimate images, is growing and poses serious risks to privacy rights.<\/p>\n<p>The investigation looked at whether the companies involved are complying with privacy law and whether they obtained \u201cvalid consent\u201d to collect, use and disclose personal information to create deepfakes, including explicit content.<\/p>\n<p>The wave of images drew a global backlash, with the U.K., the European Union and California launching investigations of their own.<\/p>\n<p>In Canada, the Liberal government has introduced legislation that would criminalize non-consensual sexual deepfakes.<\/p>\n<p>This report by The Canadian Press was first published June 11, 2026. <\/p>\n<p>Anja Karadeglija, The Canadian Press<\/p>\n<p>\t\t<span class=\"add-trusted-source-icon\">Keep it Factual<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Add CityNews Halifax as a trusted source on Google to see more local stories from us.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Privacy commissioner to release results of Grok deepfake investigation https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/2026\/06\/11\/privacy-commissioner-to-release-results-of-grok-deepfake-investigation\/ Publish Date: 2026-06-11 04:09:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":269947,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/halifax.citynews.ca\/wp-content\/blogs.dir\/sites\/5\/2026\/06\/81c762d03220f6754d1f25d0e05194846abbfed3574f930b3505210851ebbb63.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-269946","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-privacy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269946"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=269946"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269946\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":269948,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/269946\/revisions\/269948"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/269947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=269946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=269946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=269946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}