{"id":270291,"date":"2026-06-11T10:36:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/national-newswatch-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T10:40:10","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T14:40:10","slug":"national-newswatch-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/11\/national-newswatch-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes\/","title":{"rendered":"National Newswatch | Privacy commissioner says Grok deepfakes\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalnewswatch.com\/2026\/06\/11\/cp-newsalert-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes-violated-canadian-privacy-law\">National Newswatch | Privacy commissioner says Grok deepfakes\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalnewswatch.com\/2026\/06\/11\/cp-newsalert-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes-violated-canadian-privacy-law\">https:\/\/nationalnewswatch.com\/2026\/06\/11\/cp-newsalert-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes-violated-canadian-privacy-law<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-06-11 10:36:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"nationalnewswatch.com\">nationalnewswatch.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n                                Privacy Commissioner Philippe Dufresne listens to a question during a news conference in Ottawa, Wednesday, May 6, 2026. THE CANADIAN PRESS\/Adrian Wyld\n                            <\/p>\n<p>OTTAWA &#8212; The federal privacy commissioner says sexual deepfakes created by Elon Musk&#8217;s Grok AI chatbot violated Canada&#8217;s privacy law.<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog says Grok&#8217;s AI image generation tool was launched without adequate safeguards and didn&#8217;t properly consider harms to privacy.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The commissioner launched an investigation in January to examine the proliferation of sexualized deepfakes created by Grok and shared on the X social media platform.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The privacy commissioner says Grok was being used to generate millions of sexualized deepfakes.\n                                                                    <\/p>\n<p>The investigation looked at whether the companies involved are complying with privacy law and whether they obtained &#8220;valid consent&#8221; to collect, use and disclose personal information to create deepfakes, including explicit content.\n                                                                                                                                                                                                    <\/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.<br \/>\n                                                                   &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/nationalnewswatch.com\/2026\/06\/11\/cp-newsalert-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes-violated-canadian-privacy-law\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>National Newswatch | Privacy commissioner says Grok deepfakes\u2026 https:\/\/nationalnewswatch.com\/2026\/06\/11\/cp-newsalert-privacy-commissioner-says-grok-deepfakes-violated-canadian-privacy-law Publish Date: 2026-06-11 10:36:00 Source Domain:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":270292,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/assets-nnw.nationalnewswatch.com\/articles\/_1200x630_crop_center-center_82_none\/81c762d03220f6754d1f25d0e05194846abbfed3574f930b3505210851ebbb63.jpg?mtime=1781188207","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-270291","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\/270291"}],"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=270291"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270291\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":270293,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270291\/revisions\/270293"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/270292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=270291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=270291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=270291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}