OTTAWA - Privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne says he will investigate whether social media platform X is respecting the law on the use of ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥s' personal information.
In a letter to New Democrat MP Brian Masse, Dufresne says he will look at whether X complies with federal privacy law concerning the platform's collection, use and disclosure of personal data to train artificial intelligence models.
Masse asked Dufresne in a letter earlier this week to look into whether the platform is placing ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥s' "personal information in jeopardy."
In his response, Dufresne said an investigator from his office has been assigned to look at the AI issue.
Dufresne said other issues raised by Masse — related to the use of X on the devices of government employees and parliamentarians — fall outside his jurisdiction.
In 2022, billionaire Elon Musk purchased Twitter and subsequently rebranded it as X.
This report by ´ºÉ«Ö±²¥was first published Feb. 26, 2025.
