By Mike Swift ( May 6, 2026, 20:28 GMT | Insight) -- As OpenAI rushed to get ChatGPT to market in late 2022, the company violated Canada's federal and provincial privacy laws, the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada and provincial privacy regulators from Alberta, British Columbia and Québec said Wednesday. OpenAI avoided fines and other penalties, however, with the four Canadian regulators concluding conditionally that privacy improvements the company made in response to the probe launched in 2023 have been significant enough to avoid sanctions.OpenAI violated federal and provincial privacy laws in Canada by using personal information scraped from the internet to train the first versions of ChatGPT without consent, Canadian regulators said Wednesday, but the company avoided fines because of changes it made during the probe....
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